Section 27550.1.
27550.1. The qualifications for eligibility to a county or district office, required by Section 24001 of this Code, shall not apply to candidates or applicants for, or a person elected or appointed to, the office of surveyor in a county containing a population of under 20,000 as determined by the 1960 federal decennial census. (Amended […]
Section 27491.43.
27491.43. (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, except as otherwise provided in this section, in any case in which the coroner, before the beginning of an autopsy, dissection, or removal of corneal tissue, pituitary glands, or any other organ, tissue, or fluid, has received a certificate of religious belief, executed by the decedent as provided in subdivision […]
Section 27500.
27500. Any witness served with a subpena who wilfully and without reasonable excuse fails to attend and testify is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)
Section 27491.44.
27491.44. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the coroner is authorized to do all of the following: (a) Assist the people of this state, as appropriate, in the implementation of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act contained in Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 7150) of Part 1 of Division 7 of the Health and Safety Code, and […]
Section 27501.
27501. The coroner may adjourn the inquest from time to time as may be necessary. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.)
Section 27491.45.
27491.45. (a) (1) The coroner shall have the right to retain parts of the body, as defined in subdivision (g) of Section 7150.1 of the Health and Safety Code, removed at the time of autopsy or acquired during a coroner’s investigation as may, in the opinion of the coroner, be necessary or advisable for scientific investigation and […]
Section 27502.
27502. The coroner shall cause the testimony given by any witness to be reduced to writing or recorded either in shorthand or by a mechanical recording device. It may, if recorded, at his discretion, be transcribed into typewriting by him or under his direction. He may employ a clerk or stenographer for the purpose. When […]
Section 27491.46.
27491.46. (a) The coroner shall have the right to retain pituitary glands solely for transmission to a university, for use in research or the advancement of medical science, in those cases in which the coroner has required an autopsy to be performed pursuant to this chapter, and during a 48-hour period following such autopsy the body […]
Section 27491.47.
27491.47. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the coroner may, in the course of an autopsy, authorize the removal and release of corneal eye tissue from a body within the coroner’s custody, if all of the following conditions are met: (1) The autopsy has otherwise been authorized. (2) The coroner has no knowledge of objection to the removal and […]
Section 27491.5.
27491.5. The cause of death appearing on a certificate of death signed by the coroner shall be in conformity with facts ascertained from inquiry, autopsy and other scientific findings. In case of death without medical attendance and without violence, casualty, criminal or undue means, the coroner may, without holding an inquest or autopsy, make the […]