Florida Statutes Chapter 406 — MEDICAL EXAMINERS; DISPOSITION OF HUMAN REMAINS

From the Legislature's 2026 edition, which includes changes effective through January 1, 2027. Later effective dates are retained in each section's source notes.

Title XXIX

• § 406.01 — Short title.
• § 406.02 — Medical Examiners Commission; membership; terms; duties; staff.
• § 406.03 — Organization and meetings of commission.
• § 406.04 — Rules.
• § 406.05 — Medical examiner districts.
• § 406.06 — District medical examiners; associates; suspension of medical examiners.
• § 406.075 — Grounds for discipline; disciplinary proceedings.
• § 406.08 — Payment of fees, salaries, and expenses; transportation costs; facilities.
• § 406.09 — Expert witness fees.
• § 406.11 — Examinations, investigations, and autopsies.
• § 406.12 — Duty to report; prohibited acts.
• § 406.13 — Examiner’s report; maintenance of records.
• § 406.135 — Autopsies; confidentiality of photographs and video and audio recordings; confidentiality of reports of minor victims of domestic violence; exemption.
• § 406.14 — Duty of law enforcement officers.
• § 406.145 — Unidentified persons; reporting requirements.
• § 406.15 — Designation of substitute in absence of official examiner.
• § 406.16 — Professional liability insurance.
• § 406.17 — Application and construction.
• § 406.49 — Definitions.
• § 406.50 — Unclaimed remains; disposition, procedure.
• § 406.51 — Final disposition of unclaimed deceased veterans; contract requirements.
• § 406.52 — Retention of human remains before use; claim after delivery to anatomical board; procedures for unclaimed remains of indigent persons.
• § 406.53 — Unclaimed remains of indigent person; exemption from notice to the anatomical board.
• § 406.55 — Contracts for delivery of human remains after death prohibited.
• § 406.56 — Acceptance of human remains under will.
• § 406.57 — Distribution of human remains.
• § 406.58 — Fees; authority to accept additional funds; annual audit.
• § 406.59 — Institutions receiving human remains.
• § 406.60 — Disposition of human remains after use.
• § 406.61 — Selling, buying, or conveying human remains outside state prohibited; exceptions; penalty.