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Title 26 - Utah Health Code
Chapter 4 - Utah Medical Examiner Act
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.
Universal Citation: UT Code § 26-4-25 (2020)
Effective 5/12/2015
26-4-25. Burial of an unclaimed body -- Request by the school of medicine at the University of Utah -- Medical examiner may retain tissue for dog training.
Repealed and Re-enacted by Chapter 72, 2015 General Session
26-4-25. Burial of an unclaimed body -- Request by the school of medicine at the University of Utah -- Medical examiner may retain tissue for dog training.
- (1) Except as described in Subsection (2) or (3), a county shall provide, at the county's expense, decent burial for an unclaimed body found in the county.
- (2) A county is not responsible for decent burial of an unclaimed body found in the county if the body is requested by the dean of the school of medicine at the University of Utah under Section 53B-17-301.
- (3) For an unclaimed body that is temporarily in the medical examiner's custody before burial under Subsection (1), the medical examiner may retain tissue from the unclaimed body in order to donate the tissue to an individual who is affiliated with an established search and rescue dog organization, for the purpose of training a dog to search for human remains.
Repealed and Re-enacted by Chapter 72, 2015 General Session
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