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: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:16 – Property of Deceased.
611-B:16 Property of Deceased. – In all cases arising under the provisions of this chapter, the medical examiner shall take charge of any money and other personal property of the deceased found upon or near the body. Unless held as evidence, all money and other personal property shall be released with the body to […]
Section 611-B:17 – Performance of Autopsies.
611-B:17 Performance of Autopsies. – I. If the supervising medical examiner, attorney general, or county attorney deems that an autopsy is necessary, he or she shall direct that one be made. The commissioner of the department of health and human services may, pursuant to RSA 126-A:5, V, request an autopsy of any individual who […]
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 […]