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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 38, § 5 (2026)

Cooperation with office of chief medical examiner

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Section 5. All law enforcement officers, district medical examiners, hospitals and other medical facilities, and other state, county and local officials shall cooperate with the office of chief medical examiner in the investigation of medicolegal cases. The office of the chief medical examiner may use the services of the department of state police laboratory for the performance of tests, documentation of evidence, investigating procedures and consultation on special problems. The chief medical examiner, subject to appropriation, may establish and operate a pathology laboratory within the office of chief medical examiner to meet the needs of that office. If other services required by the office of chief medical examiner are not available in the department of state police laboratory, the chief medical examiner may employ the services of other appropriate laboratories.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 2008–2008 · leading case: Macrelli v. Child.'s Hosp., 451 Mass. 690 (Mass. 2008).
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Macrelli v. Child.'s Hosp., 451 Mass. 690 (Mass. 2008). “At a hearing on the motion, the parties agreed that the OCME was authorized to conduct the autopsy in the first place and that Children’s was required by G. L. c. 38, § 5, to cooper *694 ate with the OCME; the only issue concerned the authority to retain the organs.”
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