45.05 - Chair of commission.
§ 45.05 Chair of commission. (a) The chair shall be the chief executive officer of the commission. (b) The chair may appoint such assistants, officers and employees, committees and consultants for the commission as may be determined to be necessary, prescribe their powers and duties, fix their compensation and provide for reimbursement of their expenses within amounts appropriated therefor. (c) The chair may, from time to time, create, abolish, transfer and consolidate bureaus and other units within the commission not expressly established by law as may be determined necessary for the efficient operation of the commission subject to the approval of the director of the budget. (d) The chair may request, and shall receive upon request from any department, division, board, bureau, commission or other agency of the state or any political subdivision thereof or any public authority such assistance, information and data as will enable the commission properly to carry out its functions, powers and duties. (e) The chair may request and upon such request the coroner, coroner's physician or medical examiner shall provide to the chair or to the mental hygiene medical review board, as designated, access to original autopsy slides, tissue materials and specimens derived from any autopsy or inquiry with respect to the death of a patient or resident in a mental hygiene facility. Such original materials shall be preserved intact, except for unavoidable changes due to necessary scientific testing by the mental hygiene medical review board and shall be returned to the coroner, coroner's physician or medical examiner.