Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 49A.102
This is the official text of Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 49A.102, part of Texas’s Code of Criminal Procedure — sets the procedural rules for criminal cases in Texas.
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§ 49A.102. CREATION OF MULTI-COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINERS DISTRICT; WITHDRAWAL.
Official statutory text
(a) The commissioners courts of two or more counties may enter into an agreement to create a medical examiners district and to jointly operate and maintain an office of medical examiner of the district. The district must include the entire area of each county involved. The counties in the district must, when taken together, form a continuous area.
(b) A medical examiners district may have only one medical examiner. When a county becomes part of a medical examiners district, the effect is the same within the county as if an office of medical examiner had been established solely in that county.
(c) The district medical examiner has all the powers and duties within the district that a medical examiner who serves in a single county has within that county.
(d) The commissioners court of a county that is part of a medical examiners district may withdraw the county from the district if the court gives 12 months' notice of withdrawal to the commissioners courts of all other counties in the district.
(b) A medical examiners district may have only one medical examiner. When a county becomes part of a medical examiners district, the effect is the same within the county as if an office of medical examiner had been established solely in that county.
(c) The district medical examiner has all the powers and duties within the district that a medical examiner who serves in a single county has within that county.
(d) The commissioners court of a county that is part of a medical examiners district may withdraw the county from the district if the court gives 12 months' notice of withdrawal to the commissioners courts of all other counties in the district.
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