2009 Iowa Code
Title 4 - Public Health
Subtitle 2 - Health-Related Activities
CHAPTER 144 - VITAL STATISTICS
144.56 - AUTOPSY.

        144.56  AUTOPSY.
         1.  An autopsy or postmortem examination may be performed upon the
      body of a deceased person by a physician whenever the written consent
      to the examination or autopsy has been obtained from the person
      authorized to control the deceased person's remains under section
      144C.5.
         2.  This section does not apply to any death investigated under
      the authority of sections 331.802 to 331.804.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C75, 77, 79, 81, S81, § 144.56; 81 Acts, ch 117, § 1207] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         2008 Acts, ch 1051, §3, 22
         Referred to in § 144.57