As Amended
SEC. 41-61-55. State Medical Examiner; appointment; qualifications; removal.
There is hereby created the position of State Medical Examiner, to be established as herein provided under the appointment by and supervision of the Commissioner of Public Safety.
Each applicant for the position of State Medical Examiner shall, as a minimum, be a physician who is eligible for a license to practice medicine in Mississippi and be certified in forensic pathology by the American Board of Pathology.
The State Medical Examiner may be removed by the commissioner only for inefficiency or other good cause, after written notice and a hearing complying with due process of law.
SOURCES: Laws, 1986, ch. 459, Sec. 8, eff from and after July 1, 1986.