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deputy chief medical examiners to serve as acting Chief Medical Examiner. The acting Chief<br />

Medical Examiner has all of the powers and responsibilities of the Chief Medical Examiner.<br />

PART DDD<br />

SUMMARY<br />

This Part authorizes the Attorney General to set the compensation of the Deputy Chief<br />

Medical Examiner in consultation with the Chief Medical Examiner.<br />

This Part also removes the specific salary schedule reference for the Deputy Chief Medical<br />

Examiner, as this is the only unclassified, confidential position on the Medical Personnel salary<br />

schedule, and requires that compensation be set by the Attorney General in consultation with the<br />

Chief Medical Examiner.<br />

PART EEE<br />

Sec. EEE-1. 22 MRSA §3024, first , as amended by PL 2013, c. 368, Pt. CC, §1, is<br />

further amended to read:<br />

The salary of the Chief Medical Examiner of the State must be set by the Governor. Other<br />

nonsalaried medical examiners and nonsalaried medicolegal death investigators, upon the<br />

submission of their completed report to the Chief Medical Examiner, must be paid a fee of up to<br />

$85 $100 for an inspection and view and are entitled to receive travel expenses to be calculated<br />

at the mileage rate currently paid to state federal employees pursuant to Title 5, section 8. An<br />

additional fee of $50 may be authorized by the Chief Medical Examiner for payment to other<br />

nonsalaried medical examiners and nonsalaried medicolegal death investigators for visits to<br />

death scenes other than hospitals.<br />

PART EEE<br />

SUMMARY<br />

This Part increases the maximum fee allowed to be paid to a nonsalaried medical<br />

examiner or a nonsalaried medicolegal death investigator for an inspection and view. It also<br />

changes the mileage reimbursement rate from the state reimbursement rate to the federal<br />

reimbursement rate for these nonsalaried medical examiners or nonsalaried medicolegal death<br />

investigators.<br />

PART FFF<br />

Sec. FFF-1. 22 MRSA §3035, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 1997, c. 598, §1, is amended to<br />

read:<br />

1. Fees. Except as provided in subsections 3 and 4, the Office of Chief Medical Examiner<br />

shall charge a fee for providing report documents, histological slides and other items or<br />

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