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2015 Utah Code
Title 26 - Utah Health Code
Chapter 4 - Utah Medical Examiner Act
- Section 1 - Short title.
- Section 2 - Definitions.
- Section 4 - Chief medical examiner -- Appointment -- Qualifications -- Authority.
- Section 5 - County medical examiners.
- Section 6 - Investigation of deaths -- Requests for autopsies.
- Section 7 - Custody by medical examiner.
- Section 8 - Discovery of dead body -- Notice requirements -- Procedure.
- Section 9 - Custody of dead body and personal effects -- Examination of scene of death -- Preservation of body -- Autopsies.
- Section 10 - Certification of cause of death.
- Section 11 - Records and reports of investigations.
- Section 12 - Order to exhume body -- Procedure.
- Section 13 - Autopsies -- When authorized.
- Section 14 - Certification of death by attending physician -- Deaths without medical attendance -- Cause of death uncertain -- Notice requirements.
- Section 15 - Deaths in medical centers and federal facilities.
- Section 16 - Release of body for funeral preparations.
- Section 17 - Records of medical examiner -- Copies furnished to next-of-kin, law enforcement officers, and attending physician -- Confidentiality.
- Section 18 - Records of medical examiner -- Admissibility as evidence -- Subpoena of person who prepared record.
- Section 19 - Personal property of deceased -- Disposition.
- Section 20 - Officials not liable for authorized acts.
- Section 21 - Authority of county attorney or district attorney to subpoena witnesses and compel testimony -- Determination if decedent died by unlawful means.
- Section 22 - Additional powers and duties of department.
- Section 23 - Authority of examiner to provide organ or other tissue for transplant purposes.
- Section 24 - Autopsies -- Persons eligible to authorize.
- Section 25 - Burial of an unclaimed body -- Request by the school of medicine at the University of Utah -- Medical examiner may retain tissue for dog training.
- Section 26 - Social security number in certification of death.
- Section 27 - Registry of unidentified deceased persons.
- Section 28 - Testing for suspected suicides -- Maintaining information -- Compensation to deputy medical examiners.
- Section 29 - Application for permit to render a dead body unavailable for postmortem examination -- Fees.
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