After an unclaimed body has been received by the anatomical board or its duly authorized agent, and has been preserved and stored, the body may be claimed within twenty days after death by relatives, friends, or fraternal or charitable organizations for burial or cremation at the expense of the claimant, and the body shall be surrendered to the claimant without charge of any character. During the twenty-day period the board shall publish at least two notices in a newspaper of general circulation, published in the county in which the death occurred or in which the body was first discovered, stating that the body is unclaimed and giving the name of the deceased if it is known. The notice shall be published in the name of the coroner of the county.
Source: L. 2017: Entire part added with relocations, (SB 17-223), ch. 158, p. 555, � 1, effective August 9.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former � 12-34-203 as it existed prior to 2017.
15-19-304. Disposition of all or any portion of body after death - nonliability. (1) A person has a right during his or her lifetime to provide for the disposition of all or any portion of his or her body upon his or her death.
(2) No cause of action for damages shall accrue to any person arising out of the removal of all or any portion of the body of any deceased person if the deceased person has, prior to the time of his or her death, executed a written consent to removal, and the person against whom the cause of action is alleged had no actual knowledge of any revocation of such consent.
(3) The anatomical board, or its duly authorized agent, is authorized to receive and distribute dead human bodies or parts thereof bequeathed or donated to it for the advancement of medical and anatomical sciences in the same manner as is now provided by law for the receipt and distribution of unclaimed dead human bodies; except that no publication of notice as required by section 15-19-303 shall be required.
Source: L. 2017: Entire part added with relocations, (SB 17-223), ch. 158, p. 556, � 1, effective August 9.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former � 12-34-204 as it existed prior to 2017.