Title LIX, Proceedings in Criminal Cases

For the purpose of any medical examination into the cause and manner of death, and where medical treatment has been provided to the decedent who is the subject of the examination, upon written request of the supervising medical examiner any individual, partnership, association, c…

I. If the medical examiner determines that an external examination of the body is necessary to determine the manner and cause of death, the medical examiner may arrange for the body to be transported to a funeral home or other facility where an examination can be conducted. In th…

In all cases arising under the provisions of this chapter, the medical examiner shall take charge of any money and other personal property of the deceased found upon or near the body. Unless held as evidence, all money and other personal property shall be released with the body t…

I. If the supervising medical examiner, attorney general, or county attorney deems that an autopsy is necessary, he or she shall direct that one be made. The commissioner of the department of health and human services may, pursuant to RSA 126-A:5, V, request an autopsy of any ind…

I. Except as provided in RSA 227-C:8-a through RSA 227-C:8-g, whenever unidentified human skeletal remains are recovered, the chief medical examiner may store the remains, release them to an educational institution, direct that they be interred in an appropriate resting place, or…

Whenever the supervising medical examiner requires expert investigation, either chemical or pathological, of any substance or article preserved from an autopsy, such investigation may be made at the forensic science laboratory of the department of safety established in RSA 106-B:…

I. There is hereby established within the department of justice the office of chief medical examiner. The office shall be under the immediate supervision of a person who shall be known as the "chief medical examiner," and who shall be a duly licensed physician and certified by th…

If, upon completion of a death investigation, the medical examiner is of the opinion that the death of the person was caused or occurred in any manner described in RSA 611-B:11, the medical examiner shall file a record of the case with the county attorney or the attorney general,…

I. The medical examiner shall charge a reasonable fee for each autopsy report made available upon request. Such fee shall be credited to the medico-legal investigation fund established under RSA 611-B:28. II. Homicide autopsy reports shall be made available only to the department…

In any case in which the deceased whose death is being investigated is a child whose death is determined to have been the result of sudden unexplained infant death, the supervising medical examiner shall file a record of the case with the bureau of maternal and child health, depa…

In deaths investigated by a medical examiner, when the identity of a dead body cannot be established by visual means, fingerprints, or other identifying data, the medical examiner shall have a qualified dentist, as determined by the supervising medical examiner, carry out a denta…

The medical examiner, upon the completion of the investigation, shall release the dead body, upon their claim therefor, to one of the following persons: I. The husband or wife, as the case may be. II. The next of kin. III. Any friend of the deceased.

If a dead body is unidentified or unclaimed for a period of not less than 48 hours following completion of the death investigation, the medical examiner shall release the body to the overseer of public welfare in the town or, in the case of an unincorporated place, to a county co…

When the body is released pursuant to RSA 611-B:24 or RSA 611-B:25, the medical examiner shall provide to the person taking custody of the body a state of New Hampshire death certificate form with the pronouncing and certifying sections completed.

I. Assistant deputy medical examiners shall be paid at the following rates: telephone consultations-$25; death investigations involving an external examination of the body-$140, plus mileage at the state rate; pre-cremation examinations conducted pursuant to RSA 325-A:18-$50. II.…

I. All autopsy-related bills shall be submitted to the office of the chief medical examiner, which shall authorize them and submit them for payment to the state treasurer, chargeable to the medico-legal investigative fund established pursuant to RSA 611-B:28. II. For purposes of …

I. There is established in the office of the state treasurer a nonlapsing fund to be known as the medico-legal investigation fund, which shall be kept distinct and separate from all other funds. The medico-legal investigation fund is established to receive all fees paid to the st…

If a person reported missing has not been found within 30 days, the county sheriff, chief of police of a city or town, medical examiner, or other law enforcement authority initiating or conducting the investigation for the missing person shall request the family or next of kin of…

There is hereby established within the office of chief medical examiner the position of deputy chief medical examiner. The deputy chief medical examiner shall be appointed in the same manner as the chief medical examiner as provided in RSA 611-B:2, and shall be a licensed physici…

There is hereby established within the office of the chief medical examiner the position of associate medical examiner. The associate medical examiner shall be appointed in the same manner as the chief medical examiner as provided in RSA 611-B:2, and shall be a licensed physician…

The division of state police shall act as a repository or computer center, or both, for the dental examination records and dental records filed with it under this chapter. The division shall compare the dental examination records filed pursuant to RSA 611-B:29 with the dental rec…

If a person reported missing has been found, the county sheriff, chief of police of a city or town, medical examiner, or other law enforcement authority shall report the fact to the division of state police. After receiving the report, the division shall erase or destroy the dent…

The chief medical examiner may designate in writing an acting chief medical examiner who shall be a licensed physician, certified by the American Board of Pathology as a qualified pathologist with training and experience in forensic medicine. The acting chief medical examiner sha…

The chief medical examiner shall employ assistant deputy medical examiners to perform the duties of medical examiner under this chapter. Assistant deputy medical examiners shall serve without geographic restriction. An assistant deputy medical examiner shall be a person educated …

The provisions of RSA 99-D shall apply to the chief medical examiner and any other medical examiner or investigator employed in the office of the chief medical examiner for claims arising from the scope of their official duties, including, but not limited to, the practice of fore…

The chief medical examiner shall have general supervision over the administration of and shall enforce the provisions of this chapter. Medical examiners shall serve under the professional direction and supervision of the chief medical examiner.

I. The chief medical examiner shall have the authority to enter into agreements, subject to approval of the attorney general and governor and council, with state departments and with any public or private college or university, school of medicine, or hospital for the use of certa…

The supervising medical examiner shall have authority to call upon and employ such persons, skilled in science, pathology, or otherwise, as are necessary for the performance of duties, as occasion may necessitate.

Where appearing in this chapter, the term "governor" includes any person performing the functions of governor by authority of the law of this state. The term "executive authority" includes the governor, and any person performing the functions of governor in a state other than thi…

No person arrested upon a warrant issued pursuant to RSA 612:7 shall be delivered over to the agent whom the executive authority demanding him shall have appointed to receive him unless he shall first be taken forthwith before a judge of a court of record in this state, who shall…

Any officer who shall deliver to the agent for extradition of the demanding state a person in his custody under the governor's warrant in wilful disobedience to RSA 612:10 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

The officer or person executing the governor's warrant of arrest, or the agent of the demanding state to whom the prisoner has been delivered, may, when necessary, confine the prisoner in the jail of any county or city through which he may pass, and the keeper of such jail must r…

Whenever any person within this state shall be charged on the oath of any credible person before any judge or magistrate of this state with the commission of any crime in any other state and, except in cases arising under RSA 612:6, with having fled from justice, or with having b…

The arrest of a person may be lawfully made also by any peace officer or a private person without a warrant upon reasonable information that the accused stands charged in the courts of a state with a crime punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, but whe…

If from the examination before the judge or magistrate it appears that the person held is the person charged with having committed the crime alleged and, except in cases arising under RSA 612:6, that he has fled from justice, the judge or magistrate must, by a warrant reciting th…

Unless the offense with which the prisoner is charged is shown to be an offense punishable by death or life imprisonment under the laws of the state in which it was committed, a judge or magistrate in this state may admit the person arrested to bail by bond, with sufficient suret…

If the accused is not arrested under warrant of the governor by the expiration of the time specified in the warrant or bond, a judge or magistrate may discharge him or may recommit him for a further period, not to exceed 60 days, or a judge or magistrate may again take bail for h…

If a prisoner is admitted to bail and fails to appear and surrender himself according to the conditions of his bond, the judge or magistrate, by proper order, shall declare the bond forfeited and order his immediate arrest without warrant if he is within this state. Recovery may …

If a criminal prosecution has been instituted against such person under the laws of this state and is still pending, when a demand for extradition is received, the governor, in his discretion, may surrender the person on demand of the executive authority of another state or hold …

Subject to the provisions of this chapter, the provisions of the Constitution of the United States controlling, and any and all acts of Congress enacted in pursuance thereof, it is the duty of the governor of this state to have arrested and delivered up to the executive authority…

The guilt or innocence of the accused as to the crime of which he is charged may not be inquired into by the governor or in any proceeding after the demand for extradition accompanied by a charge of crime in legal form as provided in RSA 612:3 has been presented to the governor, …

The governor may recall his warrant of arrest or may issue another warrant whenever he deems proper.

Whenever the governor of this state shall demand a person charged with a crime or with escaping from confinement or breaking the terms of his bail, probation, or parole in this state from the executive authority of any other state, or from the chief justice or an associate justic…

I. When the return to this state of a person charged with a crime in this state is required, the prosecuting attorney shall present to the governor his written application for a requisition for the return of the person charged, in which application shall be stated the name of the…

All expenses of officers of this state in connection with extradition proceedings under the provision of this chapter shall be paid out of the county treasury in the county wherein the crime is alleged to have been committed, except as provided in the case of recommitment of cert…

A person brought into this state by, or after waiver of, extradition based on a criminal charge shall not be subject to service of personal process in civil actions arising out of the same facts as the criminal proceedings to answer which he is being or has been returned, until h…