(a) The Chief Medical Examiner, the Assistant Medical Examiners and the Deputy Medical Examiners shall perform all the medical and other functions formerly devolving upon the coroners, deputy coroners and coroners' physicians in the counties of this State and in the City of Wilmington and duties imposed upon them by this chapter.
(b) The Chief Medical Examiner shall comply with the orders and directions of the Department of Safety and Homeland Security.
Structure Delaware Code
§ 4701. Division of Forensic Science established; purpose.
§ 4702. Rules and regulations.
§ 4703. Appointment of professional and other personnel.
§ 4704. Duties of Medical Examiners.
§ 4706. Investigation of deaths.
§ 4707. Postmortem examination; autopsy reports.
§ 4708. Forensic Sciences Laboratory.
§ 4709. Power to administer oaths and issue subpoenas.
§ 4710. Records and reports; evidence.
§ 4711. Disposition of unclaimed body or remains of indigent person.
§ 4712. Authority to provide corneas to eye banks.