HOUSE BILL No. 5186


     October 10, 2001, Introduced by Reps. Van Woerkom, Pappageorge, Gilbert, Vander Veen, Meyer, Koetje and Ehardt and referred to the
Committee on Local Government and Urban Policy.


        A bill to amend 1953 PA 181, entitled

   "An act relative to investigations in certain instances of the
   causes of death within this state due to violence, negligence or
   other act or omission of a criminal nature or to protect public
   health; to provide for the taking of statements from injured per-
   sons under certain circumstances; to abolish the office of coro-
   ner and to create the office of county medical examiner in cer-
   tain counties; to prescribe the powers and duties of county medi-
   cal examiners; to prescribe penalties for violations of the pro-
   visions of this act; and to prescribe a referendum thereon,"

   by amending section 1 (MCL 52.201).

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

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           Sec. 1.  (1) The board of  supervisors  COMMISSIONERS of

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      each county of this state shall by resolution abolish the office

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      of coroner  ,  and appoint a county medical examiner to hold

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      office for a period of 4 years.   Should  IF the office of county

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      medical examiner  become  BECOMES vacant before the expiration of

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      the term of office, the board of  supervisors  COMMISSIONERS may

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      appoint a successor to complete the term of office.  In counties


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       having  WITH a civil service system, the appointment and tenure

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      of the medical examiner shall be made in accordance with the pro-

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      visions  thereof  OF THAT CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM.

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           (2) County medical examiners shall be physicians licensed to

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      practice within  the  THIS state.  and shall be residents of the

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      county for which they are appointed or of a neighboring county.

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           (3) Two or more adjoining counties, by resolution of the

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      respective boards of  supervisors thereof  COMMISSIONERS, may

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      enter into  common  AN agreement to employ the same person to act

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      as medical examiner for all of the counties.




































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