# Iowa Code § 691.6A: Deputy state medical examiner creation and duties

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## Section

- **Citation:** Iowa Code § 691.6A
- **Heading:** Deputy state medical examiner creation and duties
- **Jurisdiction:** Iowa
- **Kind:** Statutes
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** August 14, 2026
- **Source:** Compiled text
- **Location:** IA Code / Title XVI / Chapter 691 / Section 691.6A

## Text

The position of deputy state medical examiner is created within the office of the state medical examiner. The deputy state medical examiner shall report to and be responsible to the state medical examiner. The deputy state medical examiner shall meet the qualification criteria established in section 691.5 for the state medical examiner and shall be subject to rules adopted by the state medical examiner as provided in section 691.6, subsection 3. The state medical examiner and the deputy state medical examiner shall function as a team, providing peer review as necessary, fulfilling each other’s job responsibilities during times of absence, and working jointly to provide services and education to county medical examiners, law enforcement officials, hospital pathologists, and other individuals and entities. The deputy medical examiner may be, but is not required to be, a full-time salaried faculty member of the department of pathology of the university of Iowa college of medicine. If the medical examiner is a full-time salaried faculty member of the department of pathology of the university of Iowa college of medicine, the department of health and human services and the state board of regents shall enter into a chapter 28E agreement to define the activities and functions of the deputy medical examiner, and to allocate deputy medical examiner costs, consistent with the requirements of this section.

99 Acts, ch 208, §8, 14; 2001 Acts, ch 74, §212023 Acts, ch 19, §1294

## Nearby sections

- [Iowa Code § 691.1 Laboratory created.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXVI_C691_S691.1.md)
- [Iowa Code § 691.2 Presumption of qualification — evidence — testimony.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXVI_C691_S691.2.md)
- [Iowa Code § 691.3 Commissioner to make rules.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXVI_C691_S691.3.md)
- [Iowa Code § 691.4 Copy of finding to defendant.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXVI_C691_S691.4.md)
- [Iowa Code § 691.5 State medical examiner.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXVI_C691_S691.5.md)
- [Iowa Code § 691.6 Duties of state medical examiner.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXVI_C691_S691.6.md)
- [Iowa Code § 691.6A Deputy state medical examiner creation and duties.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXVI_C691_S691.6A.md)
- [Iowa Code § 691.6B Interagency coordinating council.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXVI_C691_S691.6B.md)
- [Iowa Code § 691.6C State medical examiner advisory council.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXVI_C691_S691.6C.md)
- [Iowa Code § 691.7 Commissioner to accept federal or private grants.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXVI_C691_S691.7.md)
- [Iowa Code § 691.8 Governor to transfer laboratory.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXVI_C691_S691.8.md)
- [Iowa Code § 691.9 Criminalistics laboratory fund.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_IA_TXVI_C691_S691.9.md)

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