Part 2 - UTAH MEDICAL EXAMINER
- Section 26B-8-201 - Definitions
- Section 26B-8-202 - Chief medical examiner - Appointment - Qualifications - Authority
- Section 26B-8-203 - (Effective 05/01/24). County medical examiners
- Section 26B-8-204 - Investigation of deaths - Requests for autopsies
- Section 26B-8-205 - Jurisdiction of medical examiner
- Section 26B-8-206 - Discovery of dead body - Notice requirements - Procedure
- Section 26B-8-207 - Custody of dead body and personal effects - Examination of scene of death - Preservation of body - Autopsies
- Section 26B-8-208 - Rendering a dead body unavailable for postmortem investigation
- Section 26B-8-209 - Certification of cause of death
- Section 26B-8-210 - Medical examiner to report death caused by prescribed controlled substance poisoning or overdose
- Section 26B-8-211 - Records and reports of investigations
- Section 26B-8-212 - Order to exhume body - Procedure
- Section 26B-8-213 - Autopsies - When authorized
- Section 26B-8-214 - Certification of death by attending health care professional - Deaths without medical attendance - Cause of death uncertain - Notice requirements
- Section 26B-8-215 - Deaths in medical centers and federal facilities
- Section 26B-8-216 - Release of body for funeral preparations
- Section 26B-8-217 - Records of medical examiner - Confidentiality
- Section 26B-8-218 - Records of medical examiner - Admissibility as evidence - Subpoena of person who prepared record
- Section 26B-8-219 - Personal property of deceased - Disposition
- Section 26B-8-220 - Officials not liable for authorized acts
- Section 26B-8-221 - Authority of county attorney or district attorney to subpoena witnesses and compel testimony - Determination if decedent died by unlawful means
- Section 26B-8-222 - Additional powers and duties of department
- Section 26B-8-223 - Authority of examiner to provide organ or other tissue for transplant purposes
- Section 26B-8-224 - Autopsies - Persons eligible to authorize
- Section 26B-8-225 - Burial of an unclaimed body - Request by the school of medicine at the University of Utah - Medical examiner may retain tissue for dog training
- Section 26B-8-226 - Social security number in certification of death
- Section 26B-8-227 - Registry of unidentified deceased persons
- Section 26B-8-228 - Testing for suspected suicides - Maintaining information - Compensation to deputy medical examiners
- Section 26B-8-229 - Psychological autopsy examiner
- Section 26B-8-230 - Application for permit to render a dead body unavailable for postmortem examination - Fees
- Section 26B-8-231 - Overdose fatality examiner
- Section 26B-8-232 - Injury reporting requirements by health care provider - Contents of report - Penalties