                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

COOPERATION BETWEEN OFFICE OF THE CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINER AND PROCUREMENT
ORGANIZATION (§ 32.1-291.22)

A. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and procurement organizations shall
cooperate with each other to maximize the opportunity to recover anatomical
gifts for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education.

B. If the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner 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 Office of
the Chief Medical Examiner and a postmortem examination is going to be
performed, unless the Chief Medical Examiner or an Assistant Chief Medical
Examiner denies recovery in accordance with &#xA7; 32.1-291.23, the Office of
the Chief Medical Examiner shall, when practicable, cause a postmortem
examination of the body or the part to be conducted in a manner and within a
period compatible with its preservation for the purposes of the gift.

C. A part may not be removed from the body of a decedent under the jurisdiction
of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner 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 Office of the Chief Medical
Examiner may not be delivered to a person for research or education unless the
body is the subject of an anatomical gift. This subsection does not preclude the
Chief Medical Examiner or an Assistant Chief Medical Examiner from performing
the medicolegal autopsy upon the body or parts of a decedent under the
jurisdiction of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner or from using the body
or parts of a decedent under the jurisdiction of the Office of the Chief Medical
Examiner for the purposes of education, training, and research.

HISTORY: 2007, cc. 92, 907; 2014, c. 583.