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North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 130A > Article 16 - Postmortem Investigation and Disposition

North Carolina General Statutes > Chapter 130A > Article 16 - Postmortem Investigation and Disposition

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§ 130A-377	Establishment and maintenance of central and district offices
§ 130A-378	Qualifications and appointment of the Chief Medical Examiner
§ 130A-379	Duties of the Chief Medical Examiner
§ 130A-380	The Chief Medical Examiner's staff
§ 130A-381	Additional services and facilities
§ 130A-382	County medical examiners; appointment; term of office; vacancies
§ 130A-383	Medical examiner jurisdiction
§ 130A-384	Notification concerning out-of-state body
§ 130A-385	Duties of medical examiner upon receipt of notice; reports; copies
§ 130A-386	Subpoena authority
§ 130A-387	Fees
§ 130A-388	Medical examiner's permission necessary before embalming, burial and cremation
§ 130A-389	Autopsies
§ 130A-389.1	Photographs and video or audio recordings made pursuant to autopsy
§ 130A-390	Exhumations
§ 130A-392	Reports and records as evidence
§ 130A-393	Rules
§ 130A-394	Coroner to hold inquests
§ 130A-395	Handling and transportation of bodies
§ 130A-398	Limitation on right to perform autopsy
§ 130A-399	Postmortem examination of inmates of certain public institutions
§ 130A-400	Written consent for postmortem examinations required
§ 130A-401	Postmortem examinations in certain medical schools
§ 130A-412.3	Short title
§ 130A-412.4	Definitions
§ 130A-412.5	Applicability
§ 130A-412.6	Who may make an anatomical gift before donor's death
§ 130A-412.7	Manner of making anatomical gift before donor's death
§ 130A-412.8	Amending or revoking anatomical gift before donor's death
§ 130A-412.9	Refusal to make anatomical gift; effect of refusal
§ 130A-412.10	Preclusive effect of an anatomical gift, amendment, or revocation
§ 130A-412.11	Who may make an anatomical gift of decedent's body or body part
§ 130A-412.12	Manner of making, amending, or revoking anatomical gift of decedent's body or body part
§ 130A-412.13	Persons that may receive anatomical gift; purpose of anatomical gift
§ 130A-412.14	Search and notification
§ 130A-412.15	Delivery of document of gift not required; right to examine
§ 130A-412.16	Rights and duties of procurement organization and others
§ 130A-412.17	Coordination of procurement and use
§ 130A-412.18	Sale or purchase of body parts prohibited
§ 130A-412.19	Other prohibited acts
§ 130A-412.20	Immunity
§ 130A-412.21	Law governing validity; choice of law as to execution of document of gift; presumption of validity
§ 130A-412.22	Donor registry
§ 130A-412.23	Cooperation between a medical examiner and the procurement organization
§ 130A-412.24	Facilitation of anatomical gift from decedent whose body is under the jurisdiction of a medical examiner
§ 130A-412.30	Use of tissue declared a service; standard of care; burden of proof
§ 130A-412.31	Giving of blood by persons 16 years of age or more
§ 130A-412.32	Duty of hospitals to establish organ procurement protocols
§ 130A-412.33	Duty of designated organ procurement organizations and tissue banks
§ 130A-413	Coordinated human tissue donation program; legislative findings and purpose; program established
§ 130A-415	Unclaimed bodies; bodies claimed by the Lifeguardianship Council of the Association for Retarded Citizens of North Carolina; disposition
§ 130A-416	Commission of Anatomy rules
§ 130A-417	Definitions
§ 130A-418	Deceased migrant agricultural workers and their dependents
§ 130A-420	Authority to dispose of body or body parts

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