Utah Code -- Title 26 -- Chapter 04 -- Utah Medical Examiner Act

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Updated: 21 December 2009

26-4-1    Short title.

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26-4-2    Definitions.

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26-4-4    Chief medical examiner -- Appointment -- Qualifications -- Authority.

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26-4-5    County medical examiners.

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26-4-6    Investigation of deaths -- Requests for autopsies.

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26-4-7    Custody by medical examiner.

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26-4-8    Discovery of dead body -- Notice requirements -- Procedure.

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26-4-9    Custody of dead body and personal effects -- Examination of scene of death -- Preservation of body -- Autopsies.

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26-4-10    Certification of cause of death.

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26-4-11    Records and reports of investigations.

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26-4-12    Order to exhume body -- Procedure.

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26-4-13    Autopsies -- When authorized.

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26-4-14    Certification of death by attending physician -- Deaths without medical attendance -- Cause of death uncertain -- Notice requirements.

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26-4-15    Deaths in medical centers and federal facilities.

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26-4-16    Release of body for funeral preparations.

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26-4-17    Records of medical examiner -- Copies furnished to next-of-kin, law enforcement officers, and attending physician -- Confidentiality.

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26-4-18    Records of medical examiner -- Admissibility as evidence -- Subpoena of person who prepared record.

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26-4-19    Personal property of deceased -- Disposition.

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26-4-20    Officials not liable for authorized acts.

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26-4-21    Authority of county attorney or district attorney to subpoena witnesses and compel testimony -- Determination if decedent died by unlawful means.

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26-4-22    Additional powers and duties of department.

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26-4-23    Authority of examiner to provide organ or other tissue for transplant purposes.

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26-4-24    Autopsies -- Persons eligible to authorize.

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26-4-25    Burial of unclaimed body -- Request by college of medicine.

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26-4-26    Social security number in certification of death.

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26-4-27    Registry of unidentified deceased persons.

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26-4-28    Testing for suspected suicides -- Maintaining information -- Report to the Health and Human Services Interim Committee -- Compensation to deputy medical examiners.

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26-4-29    Application for permit to render a dead body unavailable for postmortem examination -- Fees.

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means this portion of the Utah Code has been modified since the last update on 28 May 2009.

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Last revised: 21 December 2009

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