611-B:1 Definitions
611-B:2 Chief Medical Examiner; Authority; Rulemaking
611-B:3 Deputy Chief Medical Examiner
611-B:3-a Associate Medical Examiner
611-B:4 Acting Chief Medical Examiner
611-B:5 Assistant Deputy Medical Examiners
611-B:6 Indemnification of Medical Examiner
611-B:7 Supervision
611-B:8 Affiliation and Training
611-B:9 Temporary Expert Assistance
611-B:10 Administrative and Technical Assistance
611-B:11 Oath; Duty to Investigate in Medico-Legal Case
611-B:12 Mandatory Reporting of Medico-Legal Deaths
611-B:13 Charge of Body
611-B:14 Survey of Location
611-B:14-a Medical Records
611-B:15 Postmortem Examination
611-B:16 Property of Deceased
611-B:17 Performance of Autopsies
611-B:18 Retention and Disposal of Organs, Unidentified Remains, Body Fragments, and Body Fluids
611-B:19 Duty of the State Forensic Science Laboratory
611-B:20 Report to County Attorney
611-B:21 Autopsy and Investigative Reports
611-B:22 Report to Bureau of Maternal and Child Health
611-B:23 Dental Examinations
611-B:24 Release of Body
611-B:25 Unclaimed Body
611-B:26 Death Record
611-B:27 Assistant Deputy Medical Examiner Accounts
611-B:27-a Autopsy Expenses
611-B:28 Medico-Legal Investigation Fund
611-B:29 Dental Records
611-B:30 Identification by Scoring Probabilities
611-B:31 Destruction of Records

Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes > Chapter 611-B - Office of the Chief Medical Examiner

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of these laws, shall mean the section next preceding or following that in which such reference is made, unless some other is expressly designated. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:13
  • governor and council: shall mean the governor with the advice and consent of the council. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:31-a
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • justice: when applied to a magistrate, shall mean a justice of a municipal court, or a justice of the peace having jurisdiction over the subject-matter. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:12
  • month: shall mean a calendar month, and the word "year" a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed; and the word "year" shall be equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:8
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • seal: shall include an impression of the official seal made upon the paper alone, as well as an impression thereof made by means of wax, or a wafer, affixed thereto. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:11
  • state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • sworn: when applied to public officers required by the constitution to take oaths therein prescribed, shall refer to those oaths; when applied to other officers it shall mean sworn to the faithful discharge of the duties of their offices before a justice of the peace, or other person authorized to administer official oaths in such cases. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:25