(a) The Director of the State Crime Laboratory shall appoint and employ a State Medical Examiner with the approval of the State Crime Laboratory Board and in consultation with the Secretary of the Department of Public Safety.
(b) The director may remove the examiner only for cause and with the approval of the board.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs
Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs
Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations
Subchapter 3 - State Crime Laboratory
§ 12-12-302. Board created — Members — Meetings
§ 12-12-303. Board's powers and duties generally
§ 12-12-304. Director of the State Crime Laboratory
§ 12-12-305. Housing and equipment — Functions
§ 12-12-306. State Medical Examiner
§ 12-12-307. Medical examiners — Qualifications — Duties
§ 12-12-308. Medical examiners — Professional liability insurance
§ 12-12-309. Utilization of outside personnel
§ 12-12-310. Reimbursement for use of outside faculty
§ 12-12-311. Cooperation by others required — Tort immunity
§ 12-12-312. Records confidential and privileged — Exception — Release
§ 12-12-313. Records as evidence — Analyst's testimony
§ 12-12-314. Fees — Disposition
§ 12-12-315. Notification of certain deaths
§ 12-12-316. Transportation of corpses
§ 12-12-317. Death certificates
§ 12-12-319. Embalming corpse subject to examination, investigation, or autopsy — Penalty
§ 12-12-320. Autopsies — Removal of pituitary gland
§ 12-12-321. Autopsies — Exhumed bodies
§ 12-12-322. Hazardous duty pay
§ 12-12-323. Crime Lab Equipment Fund