N.Y. County Law § 939: Medical assistants in counties of New York and Kings

§ 939. Medical assistants in counties of New York and Kings. The

district attorneys of the county of New York and of the county of Kings

are each authorized and empowered to appoint and at pleasure to remove a

medical assistant, who shall be a physician and surgeon, resident of the

county in which he is appointed, and who shall have been for at least

ten years duly licensed to practice medicine in this state. It shall be

the duty of such medical assistant, under the supervision and direction

of the district attorney, to examine into and report on all cases of

suspicious, sudden and unusual death and wounding within the county, and

to perform such duties as the district attorney may direct in connection

with the official duties of such district attorney in the enforcement

and administration of the criminal laws. Such medical assistant shall

have the power and authority, whenever so directed by the district

attorney, to dissect, perform an autopsy upon, or attend an autopsy upon

any dead body of a human being. The salaries of the medical assistants

of the county of New York and of the county of Kings shall be fixed and

determined by the district attorney of New York county and the board of

estimate, respectively, and shall be county charges.