Some of the Specific duties and responsibilities are as follows:
- Coordinates the investigation and determines the circumstances, manner, and cause of all violent, sudden, unattended, or unusual deaths
- Selects the deputy coroners and other personnel as needed
- Supervises and instructs employees
- Orders and sees that autopsies are attended by either the Law Enforcement Agency or personnel of her office or both
- Prepares annual budget requests for office
- Notifies next of kin
- Completes death certificates and cremation certificates
- Orders and conducts inquest
- Conducts meetings and conferences with Law Enforcement Agencies, attorneys, physicians, hospital personnel, funeral directors, news media, ambulance attendants, and the public
- Prepares reports and press releases. Makes sure media does not release names and addresses until next-of-kin are notified
- Gives presentations at schools, seminars, service clubs, nursing homes, and hospital staffs
- Requests organ donations from next-of-kin and sees that those wishes are carried out
- Procurement of blood and urine samples for the purpose of toxicology tests