Where there is no other county medical examiner, the chief of police or any duly authorized subordinate shall be ex officio county coroner. An ex officio county coroner shall have all the powers and perform all the duties of coroner, within that county, as provided by law.
Haw. Rev. Stat. § 52D-4
Ex officio coroner
L 1989, c 136, pt of §2
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