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...The coroner may issue any writ required by sections 313.01 to 313.22 of the Revised Code, to any constable of the county in which a body is found as described in section 313.12 of the Revised Code, or if the emergency so requires, to any discreet person of the county, and such person is entitled to receive for the services rendered the same fees as elected constables. Every constable, or other person so appointed, w...

...The coroner may secure, catalog, record, and, with the approval of the prosecuting attorney, destroy any dangerous drugs found at the scene of an investigation the coroner conducts, if the dangerous drugs are no longer needed for investigative or scientific purposes.

...If the coroner determines that a drug overdose is the cause of death of a person, the coroner may provide a notice of the death to the state medical board, board of nursing, or state dental board. The coroner may include in the notice any information relating to the drug that resulted in the overdose, including whether it was obtained by prescription and, if so, the name of the individual who prescribed it.

...nt shall, upon request, assist a county coroner in the identification of a deceased person through the use of fingerprint impressions obtained pursuant to division (A)(1) of this section or collected pursuant to section 109.572 or 311.41 of the Revised Code. (B) The superintendent shall prepare and furnish to every county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal jail or workhouse, commun...

...quired by the probate judge, sheriffs, coroners, and constables shall attend the judge's court and shall serve and return process directed and delivered to them by the judge. No officer of that type shall neglect or refuse to serve and return any process as required by this section. If an officer does neglect or refuse to serve and return process as required by this section, the judge shall issue a summons spec...

...No sheriff, coroner, or constable shall refuse to pay moneys collected by that officer to the probate judge or other person, when so directed by the judge. For refusal to pay over moneys collected, the officer shall be summoned as provided in section 2101.09 of the Revised Code and amerced for the use of the parties interested, in the amount required to be collected by the process, with ten per cent on the amou...

...se body is under the jurisdiction of a coroner, the organization shall explain to the coroner, in writing, the organization's reasons for not accepting the part.

...apist or marriage and family therapist; coroner; administrator or employee of a child care center; administrator or employee of a residential camp, child day camp, or private, nonprofit therapeutic wilderness camp; administrator or employee of a certified child care agency or other public or private children services agency; school teacher; school employee; school authority; peace officer; humane society agent; dog w...

...nts for each mile. (2) For attending a coroner's inquest, the same fees and mileage provided by division (A)(1) of this section, payable from the county treasury on the certificate of the coroner. (B) As used in this section, "full day's attendance" means a day on which a witness is required or requested to be present at proceedings before and after twelve noon regardless of whether the witness actually testif...

...an ordinance, or in a hearing before a coroner, an interpreter is necessary, the judge, magistrate, or coroner may appoint interpreters, who shall receive fees as witnesses in the case or proceeding. Such fees shall be taxed and paid as provided by sections 2335.05 to 2335.08 of the Revised Code for other witness fees. If the party taxed with costs is indigent, interpreter's fees shall not be taxed as costs, an...

...ted as an acting or interim replacement coroner shall meet the requirements to hold the office of coroner prescribed by section 313.02 of the Revised Code. And a person appointed as an acting or interim replacement county engineer shall meet the requirements to hold the office of county engineer prescribed by section 315.02 of the Revised Code. (G) A political subdivision may file a civil action in the appropriate ...

...quest of the review committee, a county coroner shall make available to the review committee the coroner's full and complete record as described in section 313.10 of the Revised Code that relates to the person whose death is being reviewed by the committee. (B) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section, no person, entity, law enforcement agency, or prosecuting attorney shall provide any information regarding the...

...quest of the review committee, a county coroner shall make available to the review committee the coroner's full and complete record as described in section 313.10 of the Revised Code that relates to the person whose death is being reviewed by the committee. (B) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section, no person, entity, law enforcement agency, or prosecuting attorney shall provide any information regarding the...

...e on the review board: (a) The county coroner or designee; (b) The chief of police of a police department in the county or the county sheriff or a designee of the chief or sheriff; (c) A public health official or designee; (d) The county prosecutor or designee; (e) The executive director of a public children services agency or designee; (f) A physician authorized under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code ...

...The coroner, his deputy, and assistants shall be available at all times for the performance of their duties as set forth in sections 313.01 to 313.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

... includes a toxicological analysis, the coroner, deputy coroner, or pathologist shall screen for the presence of buprenorphine, naltrexone, and methadone.

...All dead bodies in the custody of the coroner shall be held until such time as the coroner, after consultation with the prosecuting attorney, or with the police department of a municipal corporation, if the death occurred in a municipal corporation, or with the sheriff, has decided that it is no longer necessary to hold such body to enable him to decide on a diagnosis giving a reasonable and true cause of death, or t...

...such autopsies shall be credited to the coroner's laboratory fund created in section 313.16 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Whenever an autopsy is performed, including any individual component of an autopsy as defined in section 313.123 of the Revised Code, and the person who died was an inmate of a state correctional facility, the department of rehabilitation and correction or the department of youth services, as appr...

...A coroner acting in good faith is not liable in damages for injury resulting from acting or attempting to act in accordance with sections 2108.01 to 2108.29 of the Revised Code regarding an anatomical gift.

...record as attending physician or by the coroner of the county in which the death occurred. The amended birth record shall be signed by the person who attended the birth and the informant or informants whose names appear on the original record. The amended death or fetal death record shall be signed by the physician or coroner, funeral director, and informant whose names appear on the original record. An affidavit o...

...ich that person is clerk or deputy. No coroner in a county with a population of one hundred seventy-five thousand one or more who elects not to engage in the private practice of medicine pursuant to section 325.15 of the Revised Code shall practice as an attorney at law during the period in which the coroner may not engage in the private practice of medicine. No judge of any court of record in this state shall enga...

...tion of air medical services; (11) A coroner or medical examiner appointed from among persons nominated by the Ohio state coroners' association; (12) A registered nurse who actively practices trauma nursing at an adult or pediatric trauma center, appointed from among persons nominated by the Ohio association of trauma nurse coordinators; (13) A registered nurse who actively practices emergency nursing and is...

...t, appointed by the governor; (11) A coroner, deputy coroner, or other person who conducts death scene investigations, appointed by the governor; (12) An individual who represents the Ohio hospital association, appointed by the association's president; (13) An individual who represents the Ohio children's hospital association, appointed by the association's president; (14) Two individuals who represent co...

... 2921.421 of the Revised Code, or for a coroner to appoint assistants and employees in accordance with division (B) of section 313.05 of the Revised Code. As used in this division, "chief legal officer" has the same meaning as in section 733.621 of the Revised Code. (L) No present public official or employee with a casino gaming regulatory function shall indirectly invest, by way of an entity the public official ...

...se, the superintendent shall inform the coroner who submitted or the law enforcement agency that submitted the DNA specimen to the bureau of the match and, if possible, of the identity of the unidentified person. (5) The bureau of criminal identification and investigation may enter into a contract with a qualified public or private laboratory to perform DNA analyses, DNA specimen maintenance, preservation, and sto...