2016 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 63. Public Health and Safety
§63-945. Person to perform autopsy - Extent - Report of findings.
When properly authorized, an autopsy shall be performed by the Chief Medical Examiner or such person as may be designated by him or her for such purpose. The Chief Medical Examiner or a person designated by him or her may authorize arterial embalming of the body prior to the autopsy when such embalming would in his or her opinion not interfere with the autopsy. The extent of the autopsy shall be made as is deemed necessary by the person performing the autopsy. A full and complete report of the facts developed by the autopsy together with the findings of the person making it shall be prepared and filed in the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner without unnecessary delay. Copies of such reports and findings shall be furnished to district attorneys and law enforcement officers making a criminal investigation in connection with the death.
Added by Laws 1961, p. 607, § 15, eff. Jan. 2, 1962. Amended by Laws 1972, c. 246, § 14, emerg. eff. April 7, 1972; Laws 2014, c. 293, § 14, eff. Nov. 1, 2014.
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