The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 18 V.S.A. § 506)
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§ 506. Duties and compensation of the Chief Medical Examiner performing autopsy
At such autopsy, the Chief Medical Examiner shall take and preserve under proper seal
such portions of the body and its contents, together with such other articles as the
Chief Medical Examiner judges may require subsequent examination in the investigation
of the case. For performing such autopsy, the Chief Medical Examiner shall be paid
actual expenses, including the expenses of the Chief Medical Examiner’s assistants.
The Commissioner of Finance and Management, upon presentation of the account for such
expenses, duly sworn to by the Chief Medical Examiner and approved by the Attorney
General, shall issue the Commissioner’s warrant for the expenses. (Amended 1959, No. 328 (Adj. Sess.), § 8(a), (b); 1971, No. 33, § 3, eff. July 1, 1971; 1983, No. 195 (Adj. Sess.), § 5; 2023, No. 6, § 102, eff. July 1, 2023.)