Current with legislation from 2024 Fiscal and Special Sessions.
Section 20-17-705 - Wishes of deceased for disposition honored(a) An unclaimed dead human body shall not be surrendered under this subchapter to a medical school if there is proof that the deceased has during his or her last illness expressed his or her desire to be buried or otherwise interred.(b) Any adult may by will or otherwise donate his or her body to a medical school under the Revised Arkansas Anatomical Gift Act, § 20-17-1201 et seq.Amended by Act 2017, No. 147,§ 4, eff. 2/7/2017.Acts 1959, No. 22, § 7; A.S.A. 1947, § 82-405.5; Acts 1993, No. 403, § 13; 2007, No. 839, § 8.