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2017 Code of Virginia
Title 32.1 - Health
Chapter 8 - Postmortem Examinations and Services
Article 1. Chief Medical Examiner and Postmortem Examinations
- § 32.1-277. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner; central and district offices and facilities
- § 32.1-278. Appointment and qualifications of Chief Medical Examiner
- § 32.1-279. Duties of Chief Medical Examiner; teaching legal medicine
- § 32.1-280. Repealed
- § 32.1-281. Commissioner may obtain additional services and facilities
- § 32.1-282. Medical examiners
- § 32.1-282.1. Per diem medicolegal death investigators
- § 32.1-283. Investigation of deaths; obtaining consent to removal of organs, etc.; fees
- § 32.1-283.1. State Child Fatality Review Team; membership; access to and maintenance of records; confidentiality; etc.
- § 32.1-283.2. Local and regional child fatality review teams established; membership; authority; confidentiality; immunity
- § 32.1-283.3. Family violence fatality review teams established; model protocol and data management; membership; authority; confidentiality, etc.
- § 32.1-283.4. Confidentiality of certain information and records collected and maintained by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
- § 32.1-283.5. Adult Fatality Review Team; duties; membership; confidentiality; penalties; report; etc.
- § 32.1-283.6. Local and regional adult fatality review teams established; membership; authority; confidentiality; immunity
- § 32.1-284. Repealed
- § 32.1-285. Autopsies
- § 32.1-285.1. Death of infants under eighteen months of age; autopsies required; definition of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
- § 32.1-286. Exhumations
- § 32.1-287. Repealed
- § 32.1-288. Repealed
Article 2. Anatomical Gifts
- § 32.1-289. Repealed
- § 32.1-289.1. Repealed
- § 32.1-289.2. Donation or sale of blood, body fluids, organs and tissues by persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus
- § 32.1-290. Repealed
- § 32.1-290.1. Repealed
- § 32.1-291. Repealed
- § 32.1-291.1. Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act; short title
- § 32.1-291.2. Definitions
- § 32.1-291.3. Applicability of Act
- § 32.1-291.4. Who may make anatomical gift before donor's death
- § 32.1-291.5. Manner of making anatomical gift before donor's death
- § 32.1-291.6. Amending or revoking anatomical gift before donor's death
- § 32.1-291.7. Refusal to make anatomical gift; effect of refusal
- § 32.1-291.8. Preclusive effect of anatomical gift, amendment, or revocation
- § 32.1-291.9. Who may make anatomical gift of decedent's body or part
- § 32.1-291.10. Manner of making, amending, or revoking anatomical gift of decedent's body or part
- § 32.1-291.11. Persons that may receive anatomical gift; purpose of anatomical gift
- § 32.1-291.12. Search and notification
- § 32.1-291.13. Delivery of document of gift not required; right to examine
- § 32.1-291.14. Rights and duties of procurement organization and others
- § 32.1-291.15. Coordination of procurement and use
- § 32.1-291.16. Sale or purchase of parts prohibited; penalty
- § 32.1-291.17. Falsification, etc of document of gift; penalty
- § 32.1-291.18. Immunity
- § 32.1-291.19. Law governing validity; choice of law as to execution of document of gift; presumption of validity
- § 32.1-291.20. Donor registry
- § 32.1-291.21. Effect of anatomical gift on advance health-care directive
- § 32.1-291.22. Cooperation between Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and procurement organization
- § 32.1-291.23. Facilitation of anatomical gift from decedent whose body is under jurisdiction of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
- § 32.1-291.24. Uniformity of application and construction
- § 32.1-291.25. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
- § 32.1-292. Repealed
- § 32.1-292.1. Repealed
- § 32.1-292.2. The Virginia Donor Registry
- § 32.1-293. Repealed
- § 32.1-294. Repealed
- § 32.1-295. Repealed
- § 32.1-296. Determination of death
- § 32.1-297. Action for implied warranty in connection with transfer of blood or human tissue
- § 32.1-297.1. The Virginia Transplant Council
Article 3. Use of Dead Human Bodies for Scientific Study
- § 32.1-298. Notification of Commissioner and delivery of bodies
- § 32.1-299. Distribution of bodies
- § 32.1-300. Records of bodies distributed
- § 32.1-301. Burial, cremation, or return of bodies after scientific study
- § 32.1-302. Importation of anatomical material
- § 32.1-303. Penalty for trafficking in bodies
- § 32.1-304. General penalty for violation
Article 4. Cremation
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