New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 7 - HEALTH
Chapter 3 - STATE MEDICAL INVESTIGATOR'S OFFICE
Part 2 - POLICIES OF THE OFFICE OF THE MEDICAL INVESTIGATOR
Section 7.3.2.21 - CENTRAL OFFICE: POLICY

Universal Citation: 7 NM Admin Code 7.3.2.21

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024

Established by authority of the board of medical investigators, the central office of the state medical investigator:

A. receives all reports of death reported to any deputy medical investigator in the state;

B. receives all bodies for autopsy except those designated by the central office to remain within the jurisdiction of death for autopsy by a designated pathologist;

C. receives all toxicology specimens removed from a body by a deputy medical investigator;

D. receives and is the sole possessor of film and subsequent slides and photographs taken of a body or surrounding death scene by any representative of the OMI;

E. is responsible for all payments for services rendered by any representative of the OMI or their service provider, upon receipt of the itemized bill described under "FEES", SECTION L [now 7.3.2.19 NMAC];

F. receives all payments for services or reports and maintains all fiscal records pertaining to same;

G. generates all final reports;

H. enters all pertinent data into the central facility computer data base;

I. is responsible for all information disseminated to the media unless directed otherwise;

J. maintains final authority over the disposition of a dead body and the processing of that body in all cases where jurisdiction is assumed;

K. assumes responsibility for all hiring and termination of deputy medical investigators, district medical investigators, and designated pathologists;

L. develops, maintains and distributes to the deputy medical investigators a list of authorized transportation providers and mortuary services within each jurisdiction;

M. is responsible for all body storage required in the processing of any case, for all unidentified remains, and for unclaimed remains under OMI jurisdiction;

N. directs deputy medical investigator personnel to districts other than their own for assignment when required;

O. provides all training for deputy medical investigators;

P. allocates supplies for field deputy medical investigators.

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