§ 72.010 Oath and bond of coroner — Minimum — Record — Payment of bond premiums from county funds — Appointment of deputy coroners
§ 72.020 Duty of person, hospital, or institution finding or possessing dead body — Duties of coroner, law enforcement officer, embalmer, funeral director, or ambulance service
§ 72.021 Care of remains of first responder, coroner, or deputy coroner killed in the line of duty
§ 72.022 Outgoing coroner to transfer office records
§ 72.025 Circumstances requiring post-mortem examination to be performed by coroner
§ 72.026 Testing for presence of controlled substances in post-mortem examination — When required — Reporting of drug overdose — Administrative regulations
§ 72.029 Monthly report by coroner on child fatalities
§ 72.031 Prohibited uses of autopsy photographs, other visual images, and video and audio recordings
§ 72.032 Short title for KRS 72.031 and 72.992(4)
§ 72.045 Liability of office — Deputies
§ 72.210 Purpose of Office of the Kentucky State Medical Examiner
§ 72.220 Justice and Public Safety Cabinet to provide medical assistance to coroner investigating deaths
§ 72.222 Genetic testing when cause of death undetermined
§ 72.225 Advisory commission for medical examination
§ 72.235 Justice and Public Safety Cabinet may provide facilities and professional personnel for studies and examinations
§ 72.240 Justice and Public Safety Cabinet may employ state chief medical examiner and associate — Employment of county and district medical examiners
§ 72.245 County or district examiner to assist coroner
§ 72.255 Administrative regulations
§ 72.260 Charge for copies
§ 72.265 Coroner may act as county or district medical examiner
§ 72.270 Trust and agency fund for fees
§ 72.275 Persons enforcing law immune from liability
§ 72.280 Annual report to Justice and Public Safety Cabinet on drug-related deaths
§ 72.400 Legislative intent
§ 72.405 Definitions for chapter
§ 72.410 Investigation of deaths defined as a coroner’s case
§ 72.415 Power and authority of coroners and their deputies — Training course for deputy coroners — Effects of failure to complete required training
§ 72.420 Coroner’s inquest — Subpoenas — Stenographic services — Verdict
§ 72.425 Consent to autopsy when death not a coroner’s case
§ 72.430 Pathologist, toxicologist, chemist — Immunity from civil liability
§ 72.435 Cost of transporting or exhuming a body
§ 72.440 Circumstances under which coroner may order body exhumed
§ 72.445 County or Commonwealth’s attorney may petition court to order autopsy
§ 72.450 Disposal of body and valuables found thereon
§ 72.455 Expense of search for body
§ 72.460 Cost of autopsies
§ 72.465 Inquiry into death under natural circumstances — Death certificate — Change in original certificate
§ 72.470 Coroner or deputy — Immunity from civil liability
§ 72.475 Short title
§ 72.480 Death notification requirements — Emergency medical assistance
§ 72.992 Penalties
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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 72 - Coroners, Inquests, and Medical Examinations

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Attorney: means attorney-at-law. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Company: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, person, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. Source: OCC
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Genetic tests: means testing for genetic markers for cardiac arrhythmogenic syndromes. See Kentucky Statutes 72.405
  • Inquest: means an examination ordered by the coroner, or in his or her absence, ordered by a deputy coroner, into the causes and circumstances of any death which is a coroner's case by a jury of six (6) residents of the county impaneled and selected by the coroner to assist him or her in ascertaining the cause and manner of death. See Kentucky Statutes 72.405
  • Month: means calendar month. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Post-mortem examination: means a physical examination of the body by a medical examiner or by a coroner or deputy coroner who has been certified by the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet and may include an autopsy performed by a pathologist. See Kentucky Statutes 72.405
  • Pro se: A Latin term meaning "on one's own behalf"; in courts, it refers to persons who present their own cases without lawyers.
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Sworn: includes "affirmed" in all cases in which an affirmation may be substituted for an oath. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Treatment: when used in a criminal justice context, means targeted interventions
    that focus on criminal risk factors in order to reduce the likelihood of criminal behavior. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
  • Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010