Title 38, Prevention And Detection Of Crime

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), all autopsies must be performed at a facility accredited by the National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME). An accredited facility must maintain accreditation and operate pursuant to NAME guidelines. (b) Autopsies may be performed a…

(a) A county medical examiner may perform or order an autopsy on the body of any person in a case involving a homicide, suspected homicide, a suicide, a violent, unnatural or suspicious death, an unexpected apparent natural death in an adult, sudden unexpected infant and child de…

(a) (1) When a person's death occurs under any of the circumstances set out in this part, any of the following persons may request the district attorney general in the district where the body is buried or interred to petition the appropriate circuit or criminal court judge in the…

(a) Any physician, undertaker, law enforcement officer, or other person having knowledge of the death of any person from violence or trauma of any type, suddenly when in apparent health, sudden unexpected death of infants and children, deaths of prisoners or persons in state cust…

(a) When a death is reported as provided in § 38-7-108, it is the duty of the county medical examiner in the county in which the death occurred to immediately make an investigation of the circumstances of the death. The county medical examiner shall record and store the findings,…

(a) The records of the division of post mortem examination, the county medical examiner, or transcripts of the records certified to by the chief medical examiner or the deputy medical examiner or the duly appointed representative of the chief medical examiner, and the reports of …

If a county medical examiner's office or regional forensic center is conducting an autopsy on a decedent and the decedent's suspected cause of death is drug overdose, then the county medical examiner shall test the decedent for the presence of Kratom.

A person who in good faith performs a medical examination or an autopsy under this part is immune from civil or criminal liability in performing the authorized service.

Any person who neglects or refuses to comply with § 38-7-108 commits a Class E felony.

(a) An authorized post-mortem official acting under the control or direction of the chief medical examiner or a county medical examiner or performing an investigation pursuant to a court order or an order of a district attorney general is authorized to obtain, upon written reques…

The body or remains of any dead human subject to an autopsy or pathology examination pursuant to this part shall be delivered to the next of kin as soon as practicable after the completion of the autopsy or pathology examination.

(a) (1) Except as provided in subsection (c), it is an offense for the chief medical examiner, a county medical examiner, or pathologist designated pursuant to § 38-7-105, or any agent or employee of the chief medical examiner, a county medical examiner, or pathologist, to contra…

(a) (1) There is created the Tennessee medical examiner advisory council, referred to in this section as the “council.”(2) (A) The council shall consist of seventeen (17) members, each of whom shall be a resident of this state. The membership of the council consists of:(i) Three …