Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 49A.075
This is the official text of Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 49A.075, part of Texas’s Code of Criminal Procedure — sets the procedural rules for criminal cases in Texas.
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§ 49A.075. OFFICE OF DEATH INVESTIGATOR.
Official statutory text
(a) The commissioners court of a county may establish an office of death investigator and employ one or more death investigators to assist a person in the county who conducts an inquest. A death investigator serves at the will of the commissioners court and on terms set by the commissioners court.
(b) To be eligible for employment as a death investigator, a person must have experience or training in investigative procedures concerning the circumstances, manner, and cause of the death of a person.
(c) At the request and under the supervision of a justice of the peace or other person who conducts an inquest, a death investigator may assist the person conducting the inquest to:
(1) investigate the time, place, and manner of death; and
(2) lock and seal the premises of the deceased person.
(d) A death investigator who assists in an inquest under Subsection (c) shall, not later than eight hours after the death investigator completes the investigation, make a complete report of the death investigator's activities, findings, and conclusions to the justice of the peace or other person conducting the inquest.
(e) A death investigator employed under this article is entitled to receive compensation from the county in an amount set by the commissioners court.
(b) To be eligible for employment as a death investigator, a person must have experience or training in investigative procedures concerning the circumstances, manner, and cause of the death of a person.
(c) At the request and under the supervision of a justice of the peace or other person who conducts an inquest, a death investigator may assist the person conducting the inquest to:
(1) investigate the time, place, and manner of death; and
(2) lock and seal the premises of the deceased person.
(d) A death investigator who assists in an inquest under Subsection (c) shall, not later than eight hours after the death investigator completes the investigation, make a complete report of the death investigator's activities, findings, and conclusions to the justice of the peace or other person conducting the inquest.
(e) A death investigator employed under this article is entitled to receive compensation from the county in an amount set by the commissioners court.
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