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
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 6, March 26, 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.
