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HB3867 Engrossed |
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LRB094 09656 AJO 39911 b |
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| AN ACT concerning local government.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section |
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| 3-3014 as follows:
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| (55 ILCS 5/3-3014) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-3014)
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| Sec. 3-3014. Autopsy to be performed by licensed physician; |
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| costs;
reports. Any medical examination or autopsy conducted |
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| pursuant to this
Division shall be performed by a physician |
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| duly licensed to practice
medicine in all of its branches, and |
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| wherever possible by one having
special training in pathology. |
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| In Class I counties, medical
examinations or autopsies |
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| (including those performed on exhumed bodies)
shall be |
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| performed by physicians appointed or designated by the coroner,
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| and in Class II counties by physicians appointed or designated |
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| by the
Director of Public Health upon the recommendation of the |
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| advisory board on
necropsy service to coroners after the board |
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| has consulted with the elected
coroner. Any autopsy performed |
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| by a physician so appointed or designated
shall be deemed |
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| lawful. The cost of all autopsies, medical examinations,
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| laboratory fees, if any, and travel expenses of the examining |
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| physician and
the costs of exhuming a body under the authority |
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| of subsection (c) of
Section 3-3015 shall be payable from the |
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| general fund of the county where
the body is found. The |
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| examining physician shall file copies of the reports
or results |
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| of his or her autopsies and medical examinations with the
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| coroner and also with the Department of Public Health.
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| When the law requires that an autopsy be performed on the |
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| body of a person who was transported to and died in the county |
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| at a trauma center, as defined in the Emergency Medical |
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| Services (EMS) Systems Act, the coroner of that county may |
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| charge a fee to the county from which the person was |
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