HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 52        FILED ON: 8/1/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 52

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act RELATIVE TO THE MEDICOLEGAL COMMISSION.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

Section 184 of chapter 6 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out, in lines 9 and 10, the words "and who are members of the Massachusetts Society of Pathologists and who reside in the commonwealth”, and inserting in place thereof the following words:-

provided, however, that the governor may appoint to either of these two seats a pathologist certified by the American Board of Pathology if, after a diligent search, no forensic pathologist is available;