TITLE 39

HEALTH AND SAFETY

CHAPTER 34

REVISED UNIFORM ANATOMICAL GIFT ACT

39-3423.  Cooperation between coroner and procurement organization. (1) A coroner shall cooperate with procurement organizations to maximize the opportunity to recover anatomical gifts for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research or education.

(2)  A part may not be removed from the body of a decedent under the jurisdiction of a coroner for transplantation, therapy, research or education unless the part is the subject of an anatomical gift and the removal will not interfere with any autopsy or investigation. The body of a decedent under the jurisdiction of the coroner may not be delivered to a person for research or education unless the body is the subject of an anatomical gift. This subsection does not preclude a coroner from performing the medicolegal investigation upon the body or parts of a decedent under the jurisdiction of the coroner.

History:

[39-3423, added 2007, ch. 30, sec. 2, p. 73.]