UTAH CODE (Last Updated: January 16, 2015) |
Title 26. Utah Health Code |
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. |