Section 611-B:26 – Death Record.
611-B:26 Death Record. – When the body is released pursuant to RSA 611-B:24 or RSA 611-B:25, the medical examiner shall provide to the person taking custody of the body a state of New Hampshire death certificate form with the pronouncing and certifying sections completed. Source. 2007, 324:1, eff. Sept. 14, 2007.
Section 611-B:27 – Assistant Deputy Medical Examiner Accounts.
611-B:27 Assistant Deputy Medical Examiner Accounts. – I. Assistant deputy medical examiners shall be paid at the following rates: telephone consultations-$25; death investigations involving an external examination of the body-$140, plus mileage at the state rate; pre-cremation examinations conducted pursuant to RSA 325-A:18-$50. II. Assistant deputy medical examiners shall submit all claims for telephone […]
Section 611-B:27-a – Autopsy Expenses.
611-B:27-a Autopsy Expenses. – I. All autopsy-related bills shall be submitted to the office of the chief medical examiner, which shall authorize them and submit them for payment to the state treasurer, chargeable to the medico-legal investigative fund established pursuant to RSA 611-B:28. II. For purposes of this section, autopsy expenses shall include morgue […]
Section 611-B:28 – Medico-Legal Investigation Fund.
611-B:28 Medico-Legal Investigation Fund. – I. There is established in the office of the state treasurer a nonlapsing fund to be known as the medico-legal investigation fund, which shall be kept distinct and separate from all other funds. The medico-legal investigation fund is established to receive all fees paid to the state related to […]
Section 611-B:29 – Dental Records.
611-B:29 Dental Records. – If a person reported missing has not been found within 30 days, the county sheriff, chief of police of a city or town, medical examiner, or other law enforcement authority initiating or conducting the investigation for the missing person shall request the family or next of kin of the missing […]
Section 611-B:30 – Identification by Scoring Probabilities.
611-B:30 Identification by Scoring Probabilities. – The division of state police shall act as a repository or computer center, or both, for the dental examination records and dental records filed with it under this chapter. The division shall compare the dental examination records filed pursuant to RSA 611-B:29 with the dental records filed pursuant […]
Section 611-B:31 – Destruction of Records.
611-B:31 Destruction of Records. – If a person reported missing has been found, the county sheriff, chief of police of a city or town, medical examiner, or other law enforcement authority shall report the fact to the division of state police. After receiving the report, the division shall erase or destroy the dental records […]
Section 611-B:18 – Retention and Disposal of Organs, Unidentified Remains, Body Fragments, and Body Fluids.
611-B:18 Retention and Disposal of Organs, Unidentified Remains, Body Fragments, and Body Fluids. – I. Except as provided in RSA 227-C:8-a through RSA 227-C:8-g, whenever unidentified human skeletal remains are recovered, the chief medical examiner may store the remains, release them to an educational institution, direct that they be interred in an appropriate resting […]
Section 611-B:19 – Duty of the State Forensic Science Laboratory.
611-B:19 Duty of the State Forensic Science Laboratory. – Whenever the supervising medical examiner requires expert investigation, either chemical or pathological, of any substance or article preserved from an autopsy, such investigation may be made at the forensic science laboratory of the department of safety established in RSA 106-B:2-a, without charge or expense to […]
Section 611-B:20 – Report to County Attorney.
611-B:20 Report to County Attorney. – If, upon completion of a death investigation, the medical examiner is of the opinion that the death of the person was caused or occurred in any manner described in RSA 611-B:11, the medical examiner shall file a record of the case with the county attorney or the attorney […]