<br><br>72.235 Justice and Public Safety Cabinet may provide facilities and professional <br>personnel for studies and examinations. <br>The Justice and Public Safety Cabinet may establish or contract for physical facilities for <br>the conduct of post-mortem and other necessary examinations. The cabinet may employ, <br>by contract or otherwise, pathologists, toxicologists and other ancillary, technical and <br>administrative personnel to perform autopsies and such other pathological, chemical and <br>other studies and examinations as may be deemed necessary. Such studies and <br>examinations may be performed in another state if deemed to be in the best interest of the <br>Commonwealth by the chief medical examiner or the certified coroner or deputy coroner <br>and the reports thereof shall have the same validity and admissibility in evidence as those <br>performed within this state when duly certified by the chief medical examiner of the <br>cabinet or by a certified coroner or deputy coroner. <br>Effective: June 26, 2007 <br>History: Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 145, effective June 26, 2007. -- Amended <br>1982 Ky. Acts ch. 195, sec. 5, effective July 15, 1982; and ch. 343, sec. 16, effective <br>July 15, 1982. -- Created 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 114, sec. 6. <br><br>