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2025 Utah Code
Title 26B - Utah Health and Human Services Code
Chapter 8 - Health Data, Vital Statistics, and Utah Medical Examiner
Part 2 - Utah Medical Examiner
- Section 201 - Definitions.
- Section 202 - Chief medical examiner -- Appointment -- Qualifications -- Authority.
- Section 203 - County medical examiners.
- Section 204 - Investigation of deaths -- Requests for autopsies.
- Section 205 - Jurisdiction of medical examiner.
- Section 206 - Discovery of dead body -- Notice requirements -- Procedure.
- Section 207 - Custody of dead body and personal effects -- Examination of scene of death -- Preservation of body -- Autopsies.
- Section 208 - Rendering a dead body unavailable for postmortem investigation.
- Section 209 - Certification of cause of death.
- Section 210 - Medical examiner to report death caused by prescribed controlled substance poisoning or overdose.
- Section 211 - Records and reports of investigations.
- Section 212 - Order to exhume body -- Procedure.
- Section 213 - Autopsies -- When authorized.
- Section 214 - Certification of death by attending health care professional -- Deaths without medical attendance -- Cause of death uncertain -- Notice requirements.
- Section 215 - Deaths in medical centers and federal facilities.
- Section 216 - Release of body for funeral preparations.
- Section 217 - Records of medical examiner -- Confidentiality.
- Section 218 - Records of medical examiner -- Admissibility as evidence -- Subpoena of person who prepared record.
- Section 219 - Personal property of deceased -- Disposition.
- Section 220 - Officials not liable for authorized acts.
- Section 221 - Authority of county attorney or district attorney to subpoena witnesses and compel testimony -- Determination if decedent died by unlawful means.
- Section 222 - Additional powers and duties of department.
- Section 223 - Authority of examiner to provide organ or other tissue for transplant purposes.
- Section 224 - Autopsies -- Persons eligible to authorize.
- Section 225 - 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 226 - Social security number in certification of death.
- Section 227 - Registry of unidentified deceased persons.
- Section 228 - Testing for suspected suicides -- Maintaining information -- Compensation to deputy medical examiners.
- Section 229 - Psychological autopsy examiner.
- Section 230 - Application for permit to render a dead body unavailable for postmortem investigation -- Medical examiner review fee.
- Section 231 - Overdose fatality examiner.
- Section 232 - Injury reporting requirements by health care provider -- Contents of report -- Penalties.
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