Section 5. All law enforcement officers, district medical examiners, hospitals and other medical facilities, and other state, county and local officials shall cooperate with the office of chief medical examiner in the investigation of medicolegal cases. The office of the chief medical examiner may use the services of the department of state police laboratory for the performance of tests, documentation of evidence, investigating procedures and consultation on special problems. The chief medical examiner, subject to appropriation, may establish and operate a pathology laboratory within the office of chief medical examiner to meet the needs of that office. If other services required by the office of chief medical examiner are not available in the department of state police laboratory, the chief medical examiner may employ the services of other appropriate laboratories.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part I - Administration of the Government
Title VI - Counties and County Officers
Chapter 38 - Medical Examiners and Inquests
Section 2a - State and Local Multidisciplinary Child Fatality Review Teams
Section 3 - Duty to Report Deaths; Failure to Report
Section 4 - Investigation; Transportation of Bodies
Section 5 - Cooperation With Office of Chief Medical Examiner
Section 7 - Attorney General; Notice of Circumstances of Death
Section 9 - Accidental Deaths; Public Conveyances; Transcript of Inquest
Section 10 - Report of Findings by Court
Section 11 - Persons Charged With Crime; Arrest
Section 12 - Embalming Fluid; Restriction on Use
Section 13 - Release of Body; Pronouncement of Death
Section 14 - Bodies Intended for Cremation or Burial at Sea; Authorization; Fees