(55 ILCS 5/3-3014) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-3014)
Sec. 3-3014.
Autopsy to be performed by licensed physician; costs;
reports. Any medical examination or autopsy conducted pursuant to this
Division shall be performed by a physician duly licensed to practice
medicine in all of its branches, and wherever possible by one having
special training in pathology. In Class I counties, medical
examinations or autopsies (including those performed on exhumed bodies)
shall be performed by physicians appointed or designated by the coroner,
and in Class II counties by physicians appointed or designated by the
Director of Public Health upon the recommendation of the advisory board on
necropsy service to coroners after the board has consulted with the elected
coroner. Any autopsy performed by a physician so appointed or designated
shall be deemed lawful. The cost of all autopsies, medical examinations,
laboratory fees, if any, and travel expenses of the examining physician and
the costs of exhuming a body under the authority of subsection (c) of
Section 3-3015 shall be payable from the general fund of the county where
the body is found. The examining physician shall file copies of the reports
or results of his or her autopsies and medical examinations with the
coroner and also with the Department of Public Health.
No coroner may perform any autopsy required or authorized by law
unless the coroner is a pathologist whose services are requested by the
coroner of another county.
(Source: P.A. 86-962; 87-317.)
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