Idaho Statutes Title 31. Counties and County Law § 31-2801A. Powers and duties

The county coroner, who shall be a medicolegal death investigator, is charged with the responsibility of determining or certifying the cause and manner of death for those deaths properly the responsibility of the coroner.  When a death is reported to the coroner, he shall have jurisdiction over the human remains for the purpose of conducting a medicolegal death investigation concerning the circumstances surrounding the death of an individual, and he shall gather and review background information, including but not limited to medical information and any other information, that may be helpful in determining or certifying the cause and manner of death.