State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > Virginia > Title-32-1 > Chapter-8 > 32-1-291-22§ 32.1-291.22. Cooperation between medical examiner and procurementorganization.
A. A medical examiner and procurement organizations shall cooperate with eachother to maximize the opportunity to recover anatomical gifts for the purposeof transplantation, therapy, research, or education.
B. If a medical examiner receives notice from a procurement organization thatan anatomical gift might be available or was made with respect to a decedentwhose body is under the jurisdiction of the medical examiner and a postmortemexamination is going to be performed, unless the medical examiner deniesrecovery in accordance with § 32.1-291.23, the medical examiner or designeeshall conduct, when practicable, a postmortem examination of the body or thepart in a manner and within a period compatible with its preservation for thepurposes of the gift.
C. A part may not be removed from the body of a decedent under thejurisdiction of a medical examiner for transplantation, therapy, research, oreducation unless the part is the subject of an anatomical gift. The body of adecedent under the jurisdiction of the medical examiner may not be deliveredto a person for research or education unless the body is the subject of ananatomical gift. This subsection does not preclude a medical examiner fromperforming the medicolegal autopsy upon the body or parts of a decedent underthe jurisdiction of the medical examiner or from using the body or parts of adecedent under the jurisdiction of the medical examiner for the purposes ofeducation, training, and research required by the medical examiner.
(2007, cc. 92, 907.)
