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

Colorado § 15-19-222

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 15: Probate,
• Art.: Treatment of Human Bodies After Death

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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.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2017: Entire part added with relocations, (SB 17-223), ch. 158, p. 551, � 1, effective August 9.