2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 311 PHYSICIANS, OSTEOPATHS, PODIATRISTS, AND RELATED MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS 311.1951 Cooperation among medical examiner, coroner, and tissue procurement organizations.
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311.1951 Cooperation among medical examiner, coroner, and tissue procurement
organizations.
(1) A medical examiner, coroner, and organ and tissue procurement organizations shall
cooperate with each other to maximize the opportunity to recover anatomical gifts <br>for the purpose of transplantation and therapy.
(2) If a medical examiner or coroner receives notice from a procurement organization
that an anatomical gift might be available or was made with respect to a decedent <br>whose body is under the jurisdiction of the medical examiner or coroner and a <br>postmortem examination is going to be performed, unless the medical examiner or <br>coroner denies recovery in accordance with KRS 311.1953, the medical examiner or <br>coroner or designee shall conduct, when practicable, a postmortem examination of <br>the body or the part in a manner and within a period compatible with its <br>preservation for the purposes of the gift.
(3) A part may not be removed from the body of a decedent under the jurisdiction of a
medical examiner or coroner for transplantation and therapy unless the part is the <br>subject of an anatomical gift of organs or tissues for transplantation.
Effective: July 15, 2010 <br>History: Created 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 161, sec. 21, effective July 15, 2010.
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