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UTAH STATUTES AND CODES
Chapter 04 - 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 next-of-kin, 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 -- Report to the Health and Human Services Interim Committee -- Compensation to deputy medical examiners.
- 26-4-29 - Application for permit to render a dead body unavailable for postmortem examination -- Fees.
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