Section 32.1-279 - [Effective pursuant to Acts 2023, cc. 756 and 778, cl. 5] Duties of Chief Medical Examiner; teaching legal medicineA. The Chief Medical Examiner shall carry out the provisions of this article under the direction of the Commissioner. The Chief Medical Examiner may, with the approval of the Commissioner, employ forensic pathologists to serve as Assistant Chief Medical Examiners in the central and district offices established pursuant to § 32.1-277.B. The Chief Medical Examiner and Assistant Chief Medical Examiners shall be available to Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Virginia, Old Dominion University, and other institutions of higher education providing instruction in health science or law for teaching legal medicine and other subjects related to their duties.Code 1950, § 32-31.12; 1960, c. 366; 1972, c. 741; 1975, c. 475; 1979, c. 711; 1991, c. 454; 2002, cc. 87, 478; 2014, c. 583; 2023, cc. 756, 778.Amended by Acts 2023 c. 778,§ 1, eff. on the date after July 1, 2023, on which the Governor and the chairmen of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations provide written approval for Old Dominion University and Eastern Virginia Medical School to complete a merger to create the Eastern Virginia Health Sciences Center at Old Dominion University..Amended by Acts 2023 c. 756,§ 1, eff. on the date after July 1, 2023, on which the Governor and the chairmen of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations provide written approval for Old Dominion University and Eastern Virginia Medical School to complete a merger to create the Eastern Virginia Health Sciences Center at Old Dominion University..Amended by Acts 2014 c. 583, § 1, eff. 7/1/2014.