72.240 Justice and Public Safety Cabinet may employ state chief medical examiner
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and associate -- Employment of county and district medical examiners.
(1)The Justice and Public Safety Cabinet may employ a board-certified forensic
pathologist as the chief medical examiner who shall administer the Office of the
Kentucky State Medical Examiner and one
(1)associate chief medical examiner for
the Commonwealth.
(2)The Justice and Public Safety Cabinet may employ physicians licensed to practice
medicine in Kentucky as county or district medical examiners to carry out the
provisions of KRS 72.210 to 72.275 within the counties or district to which they are
assigned by the medical examiner section. The cabinet may designate county or
district health officers as county or district medical examiners and may authorize
additional compensation therefor.