Montana Code Annotated 2019

TITLE 44. LAW ENFORCEMENT

CHAPTER 3. MONTANA FORENSIC SCIENCE SYSTEM ACT

Part 2. Medical Examiners

State Medical Examiner

44-3-201. State medical examiner. A state medical examiner must be appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the attorney general. The state medical examiner must be a physician licensed to practice medicine in Montana and must be board-certified in forensic pathology. Once appointed, the state medical examiner is supervised by the director of the laboratory of criminalistics. Medical examiners must be free from undue personal, professional, or political influences as they objectively pursue and report the facts and opinions of their death investigations.

History: En. 82-429 by Sec. 3, Ch. 530, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 82-429(part); amd. Sec. 9, Ch. 503, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 689, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 194, L. 2017.