(a) The State Crime Laboratory Board may authorize the Director of the State Crime Laboratory to contract with a medical school in this state accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education or approved by the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board to seek accreditation by an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education, or with other persons or institutions, to obtain services with which to perform the duties set forth in this subchapter.
(b) The participation of a medical school’s faculty or of any other person or institution in carrying out the provisions of this subchapter shall in no way affect tenure or any other status with the medical school or institution.
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