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2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 72 - CORONERS, INQUESTS, AND MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS
72.425 Consent to autopsy when death not a coroner's case.

KY Rev Stat § 72.425 (2014) What's This?

Download as PDF 72.425 Consent to autopsy when death not a coroner's case. In the event the death of a person is not a coroner's case, consent to an autopsy shall be obtained from the decedent, by written consent, signed and acknowledged prior to his death; or his or her spouse; or in the absence of a spouse, the next of kin of the decedent; or in the absence of any of the above, the person who assumes the responsibility to dispose of the body. Effective:June 17, 1978 History: Created 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 93, sec. 9, effective June 17, 1978.

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