District of Columbia Code
Title 5 - Police, Firefighters, Medical Examiner, and Forensic Sciences
Chapter 14 - Chief Medical Examiner

§ 5–1401. Definitions - For the purposes of this chapter, the term: (1) "CME"...

§ 5–1402. Establishment of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner; appointments, qualifications, and compensation - (a) There is established as a subordinate agency in the...

§ 5–1403. Supporting services and facilities - (a) The CME shall appoint such qualified professional, investigative, technical...

§ 5–1404. Former duties of coroner; oaths; teaching; other duties - (a) The CME shall be responsible for all the medical...

§ 5–1405. Deaths — determinations and investigations; cremations - (a) The CME, other medical examiners, and medicolegal investigators (physician...

§ 5–1406. Deaths — Notification; penalties for noncompliance - (a) For all deaths described in § 5-1405(b), the CME...

§ 5–1406.01. Mass fatality management and response - (a) The OCME shall serve as the lead agency for...

§ 5–1407. Subpoena power for access to confidential medical records - The CME is authorized to issue a subpoena for confidential...

§ 5–1408. Possession of evidence and property - (a) At the scene of any death subject to investigation...

§ 5–1409. Examination; further investigation and autopsy - (a) If, in the opinion of the CME, the cause...

§ 5–1410. Autopsy by pathologist other than a medical examiner - (a) If an autopsy is performed by a pathologist other...

§ 5–1411. Delivery of body; expenses - (a) Following investigation or autopsy, the CME shall release the...

§ 5–1412. Maintenance of records; annual report - (a) The CME shall be responsible for maintaining full and...

§ 5–1413. Records as evidence - The records maintained pursuant to § 5-1412, or reproductions thereof...

§ 5–1414. Autopsies performed under court order - In the case of unexplained, sudden, violent, or suspicious death,...

§ 5–1415. Tissue transplants. [Repealed] - Repealed. (Oct. 19, 2000, D.C. Law 13-172, § 2916, 47...

§ 5–1416. Personnel, records, functions, and authority transferred - All positions, personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations,...

§ 5–1417. Regulations and fees - (a) The Mayor shall promulgate proposed regulations to implement the...

§ 5–1418. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner Management Fund - Repealed. (Oct. 19, 2000, D.C. Law 13-172, § 2918a; as...

§ 5–1419. Impaired driving program; chemical testing - (a) The CME shall be responsible for ensuring the accuracy...

§ 5–1420. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner Fund - (a) There is established as a special fund the Office...