Connecticut General Statutes
Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being
Chapter 368q - Medicolegal Investigations

Section 19a-400. (Formerly Sec. 19-525). - Short title: Medicolegal Investigations Act. - This chapter may be cited as the “Medicolegal Investigations Act”....

Section 19a-401. (Formerly Sec. 19-526). - Commission on Medicolegal Investigations. Regulations. - (a) There is established a Commission on Medicolegal Investigations, as...

Section 19a-402. (Formerly Sec. 19-526a). - Commission and office within The University of Connecticut Health Center for administrative purposes. - Section 19a-402 is repealed, effective July 1, 2014. (P.A. 77-614,...

Section 19a-403. (Formerly Sec. 19-527). - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Fees. Regulations. - (a) The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is established...

Section 19a-404. (Formerly Sec. 19-528). - Chief Medical Examiner. - The Chief Medical Examiner shall be a citizen of the...

Section 19a-405. (Formerly Sec. 19-529). - Deputy Chief Medical Examiner. Staff. - The Chief Medical Examiner, with the approval of the Commission...

Section 19a-406. (Formerly Sec. 19-530). - Powers and duties of Chief Medical Examiner. Certified pathologists. Autopsies. - (a) The Chief Medical Examiner shall investigate all human deaths...

Section 19a-407. (Formerly Sec. 19-531). - Reports of deaths. Procedure. - (a) All law enforcement officers, state's attorneys, prosecuting attorneys, employees...

Section 19a-407a. - DNA typing. - (a) After performing any death scene investigation when homicide is...

Section 19a-408. (Formerly Sec. 19-532). - Disposition of body after proceedings. - After the termination of all proceedings for which the body...

Section 19a-409. (Formerly Sec. 19-533). - Issuance of death certificate. - The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner shall complete its...

Section 19a-410. (Formerly Sec. 19-534). - Laboratories. - The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner shall maintain a...

Section 19a-411. (Formerly Sec. 19-535). - Records. - (a) The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner shall keep...

Section 19a-412. (Formerly Sec. 19-536). - Records as evidence. - The records of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner,...

Section 19a-413. (Formerly Sec. 19-537). - Exhuming of bodies. - If death occurred under circumstances as enumerated in subsection (a)...

Section 19a-414. (Formerly Sec. 19-538). - Expenditures. - The Chief Medical Examiner is authorized to make reasonable expenditures...

Section 19a-415. - Development and publication of brochure by Office of Chief Medical Examiner. - The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner shall develop and...

Section 19a-415a. - Release of biologic material of a deceased person. - (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Biologic material” means...