Utah Code -- Title 26 -- Chapter 04 -- Utah Medical Examiner Act
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- 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 1 November 2011.
Last revised: 11 January 2012