Title 11 — Counties

Voluntary forest fire wardens and peace officers, including deputy game and fish wardens, may make arrests on warrants issued by a magistrate for violation of forest fire laws, or without warrant for violation thereof committed in their presence.

In any county the board of supervisors may establish the office of public defender and appoint a suitable person to hold that office.

A. No person shall be eligible for the office of public defender or deputy public defender unless he is an attorney at law, licensed and in good standing in this state. B. The public defender shall receive that salary which the board of supervisors shall determine, provided that …

A. The public defender and his full-time deputies shall not engage in the private practice of law, except: 1. Such prohibition shall not apply to part-time deputies, except that in no instance shall part-time deputies engage in any private litigation in which the county or an off…

A. The public defender, on order of the court, shall defend, advise and counsel any person who is entitled to counsel as a matter of law and who is not financially able to employ counsel in the following proceedings and circumstances: 1. Offenses triable in the superior court or …

A. In each county where the office of public defender is established, the board of supervisors shall provide suitable rooms, office furniture and supplies with which to properly conduct the business of his office. B. The county shall be reimbursed by the appropriate governmental …

A. The public defender, with the consent and at salaries fixed by the board of supervisors, may appoint those full-time and part-time deputies, and hire stenographers and assistants necessary to conduct the affairs of their respective offices. The appointments shall be in writing…

The public defender shall petition the court to withdraw as attorney of record, and the court may grant such petition, whenever private counsel is employed either by the defendant or by any other person to represent such defendant and such private counsel is accepted by the defen…

A. The state aid to indigent defense fund is established consisting of monies appropriated to the fund and monies allocated to the fund pursuant to section 41-2421, subsections B and J. The purpose of the fund is to provide state aid to the county public defender, legal defender …

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Alternate medical examiner" means a physician who has training and competence in the principles of death investigation and who performs or directs the conduct of death investigations. 2. "Autopsy" means a surgical proced…

B. If the board of supervisors determines that the appointment of a medical examiner is not practicable, the board of supervisors shall designate one or more alternate medical examiners who need not be residents of the county. An alternate medical examiner shall perform the dutie…

A. Any person having knowledge of the occurrence of the death of a human being including a fetal death that is required to be reported pursuant to subsection B, of this section shall promptly notify the nearest peace officer of all information in the person's possession regarding…

A. The county medical examiner or alternate medical examiner shall direct a death investigation and, on a determination that the circumstances of the death provide jurisdiction pursuant to section 11-593, subsection B, shall: 1. Take charge of the dead body. 2. Determine if an au…

A. The county medical examiner or alternate medical examiner may enter any room, dwelling, building or other place in which the body or evidence of the circumstances of the death requiring investigation may be found, provided that a law enforcement agency investigating the death …

A. A human body or body suspected of being human shall not be removed from the place where the death occurred, if the death is of a nature requiring investigation, without first obtaining permission of the county medical examiner or alternate medical examiner. B. Embalming, clean…

A. The county medical examiner or alternate medical examiner shall conduct a death investigation to determine whether or not the public interest requires an external examination, autopsy or other special investigation. B. An external examination or autopsy is not required for dea…

A. On receipt of notification from an immediate family member of a decedent in the physical possession of the medical examiner, the medical examiner shall conduct an identification meeting in the time frame prescribed by this section, unless in the professional opinion of the med…

A. Notwithstanding title 39, chapter 1, photographs, digital images, x-rays and video recordings of human remains that are created by a medical examiner, alternate medical examiner or their employees or agents during a death investigation that is conducted pursuant to this chapte…

If in any case of sudden, violent or suspicious death a body is buried without any inquiries by the county medical examiner or alternate medical examiner, the county attorney of the county in which the body is buried may petition the superior court for an order directing that the…

When a funeral director, embalmer or alkaline hydrolysis operator is requested to cremate or prepare for cremation or alkaline hydrolysis the body of a dead person, the funeral director, embalmer or alkaline hydrolysis operator or any other person having knowledge of an intention…

A. When a death investigation has been completed by the county medical examiner or alternate medical examiner and no other person takes charge of the body of the deceased, the examiner shall cause the body to be delivered to the funeral establishment, licensed pursuant to title 3…