N.C. OCME North Carolina General Statutes

Postmortem Investigation and Disposition

• 130A-377. Establishment and maintenance of central and district offices.
• 130A-378. Qualifications and appointment of the Chief Medical Examiner.
• 130A-379. Duties of the Chief Medical Examiner.
• 130A-380. The Chief Medical Examiner's staff.
• 130A-381. Additional services and facilities.
• 130A-382. County medical examiners; appointment; term of office; vacancies; training requirements; revocation for cause.
• 130A-383. Medical examiner jurisdiction.
• 130A-384. Notification concerning out-of-state body.
• 130A-385. Duties of medical examiner upon receipt of notice; reports; copies.
• 130A-386. Subpoena authority.
• 130A-387. Fees.
• 130A-388. Medical examiner's permission necessary before embalming, burial and cremation.
• 130A-389. Autopsies.
• 130A‑389.1. Photographs and video or audio recordings made pursuant to autopsy.
• 130A-390. Exhumations.
• 130A-392. Reports and records as evidence.
• 130A-393. Rules.
• 130A-394. Coroner to hold inquests.
• 130A-395. Handling and transportation of bodies.
• 130A-398. Limitation on right to perform autopsy.
• 130A-399. Postmortem examination of inmates of certain public institutions.
• 130A-400. Written consent for postmortem examinations required.
• 130A-401. Postmortem examinations in certain medical schools.

Indian Antiquities, Archaeological Resources and Unmarked Human Skeletal Remains

• 70-29. Discovery of remains and notification of authorities.
• 70-30. Jurisdiction over remains.

• 130A-112. Notification of death.
• 130A-113. Permits for burial-transit, authorization for cremation and disinterment-reinterment.
• 130A-114. Fetal death registration.
• 130A-115. Death registration.
• 130A-116. Contents of death certificate.

• 7B-1404. State Team -- creation; membership; vacancies.
• 7B-1405. State Team -- duties.
• 7B-1406. Community Child Fatality Prevention Teams; creation and duties.
• 7B-1407. Local Teams; composition.

• 90-210.129. Cremation procedures.