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KRS Chapter 072.00

  • .010   Oath and bond of coroner -- Minimum -- Record -- Payment of bond premiums from county funds -- Appointment of deputy coroners.

  • .020   Duty of person, hospital, or institution finding or possessing dead body -- Duties of coroner, law enforcement officer, embalmer, funeral director, or ambulance service.

  • .025   Circumstances requiring post-mortem examination to be performed by coroner.

  • .029   Monthly report by coroner on child fatalities.

  • .030   Repealed, 1978.

  • .040   Repealed, 1978.

  • .045   Liability of office -- Deputies.

  • .050   Repealed, 1978.

  • .060   Repealed, 1978.

  • .070   Repealed, 1978.

  • .072   Repealed, 1978.

  • .075   Repealed, 1978.

  • .080   Repealed, 1978.

  • .090   Repealed, 1978.

  • .100   Repealed, 1978.

  • .110   Repealed, 1978.

  • .120   Repealed, 1978.

  • .130   Repealed, 1978.

  • .140   Repealed, 1978.

  • .150   Repealed, 1978.

    • Medical Examiners

  • .210   Purpose of Office of the Kentucky State Medical Examiner.

  • .215   Repealed, 1974.

  • .220   Justice and Public Safety Cabinet to provide medical assistance to coroner investigating deaths.

  • .225   Advisory commission for medical examination.

  • .230   Repealed, 1974.

  • .235   Justice and Public Safety Cabinet may provide facilities and professional personnel for studies and examinations.

  • .240   Justice and Public Safety Cabinet may employ state chief medical examiner and associate -- Employment of county and district medical examiners.

  • .245   County or district examiner to assist coroner.

  • .250   Repealed, 1982.

  • .255   Administrative regulations.

  • .260   Charge for copies.

  • .265   Coroner may act as county or district medical examiner.

  • .270   Trust and agency fund for fees.

  • .275   Persons enforcing law immune from liability.

  • .280   Annual report to Justice Cabinet on drug-related deaths.

    • Kentucky Coroner's Act of 1978

  • .400   Legislative intent.

  • .405   Definitions.

  • .410   Investigation of deaths defined as a coroner's case.

  • .415   Power and authority of coroners and their deputies -- Training course for deputy coroners.

  • .420   Coroner's inquest -- Subpoenas -- Stenographic services -- Verdict.

  • .425   Consent to autopsy when death not a coroner's case.

  • .430   Pathologist, toxicologist, chemist -- Immunity from civil liability.

  • .435   Cost of transporting or exhuming a body.

  • .440   Circumstances under which coroner may order body exhumed.

  • .445   County or Commonwealth's attorney may petition court to order autopsy.

  • .450   Disposal of body and valuables found thereon.

  • .455   Expense of search for body.

  • .460   Cost of autopsies.

  • .465   Inquiry into death under natural circumstances -- Death certificate -- Change in original certificate.

  • .470   Coroner or deputy -- Immunity from civil liability.

  • .475   Short title.

    • Penalties

  • .990   Repealed, 1978.

  • .991   Repealed, 1978.

  • .992   Penalties.

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