26:6B-21 New Jersey State Medical Examiner Toxicology Laboratory.

21. a. The Office of the Chief State Medical Examiner shall maintain and supervise a toxicology laboratory, to be designated as the New Jersey State Medical Examiner Toxicology Laboratory, in order to provide necessary toxicology services to the Chief State Medical Examiner, Deputy Chief State Medical Examiner, each county or intercounty medical examiner, and each assistant county or assistant intercounty medical examiner in the performance of medicolegal death investigations in this State.

b. The Chief State Medical Examiner, Deputy Chief State Medical Examiner, county or intercounty medical examiner, and assistant county or assistant intercounty medical examiner requiring the services of a toxicology laboratory are encouraged to enlist the services of the New Jersey State Medical Examiner Toxicology Laboratory. Use of another lab is permitted, provided that the laboratory meets national accreditation standards.

c. The Chief State Medical Examiner shall ensure that the Attorney General and each county prosecutor, as applicable, promptly receive copies of all final toxicology laboratory testing results from the New Jersey State Medical Examiner Toxicology Laboratory or another lab as permitted by subsection b. of this section for toxicology specimens submitted from the Office of the Chief State Medical Examiner or any county or intercounty medical examiner's office. The Attorney General or county prosecutor may obtain copies of the final toxicology testing results as the Attorney General or county prosecutor deems necessary for the fulfillment of his or her official duties.

d. The Chief State Medical Examiner shall adopt such rules and regulations as may be necessary concerning the operations and use of the New Jersey State Medical Examiner Toxicology Laboratory.

L.2018, c.62, s.21.