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ARTICLE 22

ARTICLE 22.

POST MORTEM EXAMINERS.¹

	1. Department of Post Mortem. Ex-.	4. Duties; office.
	aminers; Commission.	5. Deaths to be investigated.
	2. Medical Examiners; employees; Com-	6 Autopsies.
	pensation.	7. Record; reports.
	3. Deputy Medical Examiners.	8. Powers of Examiners.

1939, ch. 369, sec. 1,

1. The Department of Post Mortem Examiners is hereby created and
established. The head of said Department shall be a Commission, con-
sisting of the Professor of Pathology of the University of Maryland, the
Professor of Pathology of the Johns Hopkins University, the Director of
Health of the State of Maryland, the Commissioner of Health of Baltimore
City and the Attorney General of Maryland. The members of said Com-
mission shall serve without compensation and shall select one of its mem-
bers as Chairman, and one as Vice-Chairman, who shall act as Chairman
in the absence or inability of the Chairman.

1939, ch. 369, sec. 2.

2. The said Commission is hereby authorized and directed to appoint
three medical examiners, one to be known as Chief Medical Examiner, at
an annual salary of $6,500, and the other two as Assistant Medical Ex-
aminers, at an annual salary of $5,000 each. The Chief Medical Examiner
and the Assistant Medical Examiners shall be licensed Doctors of Medi-
cine, and shall have had at least two years post-graduate training in
pathology. The said Commission shall also appoint such clerks and other
employees as may be necessary for the proper administration of the De-
partment and at such compensation as may be provided in the Ordinance
of Estimates of Baltimore City and the salaries of said Examiners shall
be included in the Ordinance of Estimates each year. The Clerks and
employees shall be appointed in accordance with the provisions of Sections
268 to 284, inclusive, of the Baltimore City Charter (1938 Edition),
known as the Merit System.

1939, ch. 369, sec. 3.

3. The said Commission is hereby authorized to appoint a Deputy
Medical Examiner, who shall be a licensed Doctor of Medicine, for each
county in the State; provided, however, that an additional Deputy Medical
Examiner or Examiners may be appointed for any county whenever, in
its discretion, the said Commission shall deem it necessary or desirable to
do so. The Deputy Medical Examiners shall be appointed from a list con-
taining the names of not less than two qualified persons submitted by the
Medical Societies of the respective counties; provided, however, that if

See Art. 4, sec. 45, of Md. Constitution.
¹ This article formerly related to coroners.