Section 675. Advice, consultation, assistance, examinations, analyses and reports

1. A coroner, coroner's physician or  medical  examiner  shall
  have  authority  when  necessary  in  his opinion to consult with and to
  request advice, consultation or other assistance from any officer  of  a
  department  of  the  state  government, from any medical examiner of any
  city or county, from any other coroner or  coroner's  physician  of  any
  county,  or  from  the  head  of  any  public  health laboratory, police
  laboratory or state or municipal laboratory or from any  member  of  the
  staff  of  such  laboratory  designated  for  such  purpose  by the head
  thereof, or from any physician qualified to make postmortem examinations
  and to testify thereon; and to request from any such person such  tests,
  examinations  or  analyses  and  reports  with  respect  thereto  as are
  necessary in his opinion, with respect to the body of  the  deceased  or
  any  part  thereof  or  with  respect to any other matter related to his
  investigation.
    2. Subdivision one  of  this  section  does  not  empower  a  coroner,
  coroner's  physician or medical examiner to incur charges against county
  funds except as authorized by the board of supervisors.