Iowa Statutes
§ 142.3 — Notification of department
Iowa § 142.3
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Iowa Code § 142.3 (2026).
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Every county medical examiner, funeral director or embalmer, and the managing officer of
every public asylum, hospital, penitentiary, or reformatory, as soon as any dead body shall
come into the person’s custody which may be used for scientific purposes as provided in
sections 142.1 and 142.2, shall at once notify the nearest relative or friend of the deceased, if
known, and the department of health and human services, and hold such body unburied for
forty-eight hours. Upon receipt of notification, the department shall issue verbal or written
instructionsrelativetothedispositiontobemadeofsaidbody. Completejurisdictionoversaid
bodies is vested exclusively in the department of health and human services. No autopsy or
post mortem, except as are legally ordered by county medical examiners, sh
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Legislative History
[S13, §4946-c; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §2353; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81,
§142.3]
Nearby Sections
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§ 142.1
Delivery of bodies§ 142.10
Use without proper record§ 142.11
Penalties§ 142.13
Burial in private cemetery lot§ 142.2
Furnished to physicians§ 142.3
Notification of department§ 142.4
Surrender to relatives§ 142.5
Disposition after dissection§ 142.6
Record of receipt§ 142.7
Record and bodies§ 142.8
Purpose for which body used§ 142.9
Failure to deliver dead body§ 142C.1
Short title§ 142C.10A
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