Colorado § 15-19-222 Cooperation between coroner and procurement organization

Colorado Statutes

§ 15-19-222 — Cooperation between coroner and procurement organization

Colorado·Title 15 Probate,·Art. Treatment of Human Bodies After Death

(a)A coroner shall cooperate with procurement organizations to maximize the opportunity to recover anatomical gifts for the purpose of transplantation or therapy.

(b)Subject to section 15-19-223, if a coroner receives notice from a procurement organization that an anatomical gift might be available or was made with respect to a decedent whose body is under the jurisdiction of the coroner and a post-mortem examination is going to be performed, the coroner or designee shall make every reasonable effort to conduct a post-mortem examination of the body or the part in a manner and within a period compatible with its preservation for the purposes of the gift and the medicolegal death investigation.

(c)A part may not be removed from the body of a decedent under the jurisdiction of a

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(a) A coroner shall cooperate with procurement organizations to maximize the
opportunity to recover anatomical gifts for the purpose of transplantation or
therapy.

(b) Subject to section 15-19-223, if a coroner receives notice from a
procurement organization that an anatomical gift might be available or was made
with respect to a decedent whose body is under the jurisdiction of the coroner and a
post-mortem examination is going to be performed, the coroner or designee shall
make every reasonable effort to conduct a post-mortem examination of the body or
the part in a manner and within a period compatible with its preservation for the
purposes of the gift and the medicolegal death investigation.

(c) A part may not be removed from the body of a decedent under the
jurisdiction of a coroner for transplantation, therapy, research, or education unless
the part is the subject of an anatomical gift. The body of a decedent under the
jurisdiction of the coroner may not be delivered to a person for research or
education unless the body is the subject of an anatomical gift. This subsection (c)
does not preclude a coroner from performing the medicolegal investigation upon
the body or parts of a decedent under the jurisdiction of the coroner.

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