Chapter 4. Utah Medical Examiner Act  


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