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Utah Medical Examiner

Title 26B — Utah Health and Human Services Code §§ 26B-8-201–26B-8-233

Utah Code § 26B-8-201— Definitions
Utah Code § 26B-8-202— Chief medical examiner -- Appointment -- Qualifications -- Authority
Utah Code § 26B-8-203— County medical examiners
Utah Code § 26B-8-204— Investigation of deaths -- Requests for autopsies
Utah Code § 26B-8-205— Jurisdiction of medical examiner
Utah Code § 26B-8-206— Discovery of dead body -- Notice requirements -- Procedure
Utah Code § 26B-8-207— Custody of dead body and personal effects -- Examination of scene of death -- Preservation of body -- Autopsies
Utah Code § 26B-8-208— Rendering a dead body unavailable for postmortem investigation
Utah Code § 26B-8-209— Certification of cause of death
Utah Code § 26B-8-210— Medical examiner to report death caused by prescribed controlled substance poisoning or overdose
Utah Code § 26B-8-211— Records and reports of investigations
Utah Code § 26B-8-212— Order to exhume body -- Procedure
Utah Code § 26B-8-213— Autopsies -- When authorized
Utah Code § 26B-8-214— Certification of death by attending health care professional -- Deaths without medical attendance -- Cause of death uncertain -- Notice requirements
Utah Code § 26B-8-215— Deaths in medical centers and federal facilities
Utah Code § 26B-8-216— Release of body for funeral preparations
Utah Code § 26B-8-217— Records of medical examiner -- Confidentiality
Utah Code § 26B-8-218— Records of medical examiner -- Admissibility as evidence -- Subpoena of person who prepared record
Utah Code § 26B-8-219— Personal property of deceased -- Disposition
Utah Code § 26B-8-220— Officials not liable for authorized acts
Utah Code § 26B-8-221— Authority of county attorney or district attorney to subpoena witnesses and compel testimony -- Determination if decedent died by unlawful means
Utah Code § 26B-8-222— Additional powers and duties of department
Utah Code § 26B-8-223— Authority of examiner to provide organ or other tissue for transplant purposes
Utah Code § 26B-8-224— Autopsies -- Persons eligible to authorize
Utah Code § 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
Utah Code § 26B-8-226— Social security number in certification of death
Utah Code § 26B-8-227— Registry of unidentified deceased persons
Utah Code § 26B-8-228— Testing for suspected suicides -- Maintaining information -- Compensation to deputy medical examiners
Utah Code § 26B-8-229— Psychological autopsy examiner
Utah Code § 26B-8-230— Application for permit to render a dead body unavailable for postmortem investigation -- Medical examiner review fee
Utah Code § 26B-8-231— Overdose fatality examiner
Utah Code § 26B-8-232— Injury reporting requirements by health care provider -- Contents of report -- Penalties
Utah Code § 26B-8-233— Family outreach specialist