Colorado § 15-19-222 - Cooperation between coroner and procurement organization.
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§ 15-19-222. Cooperation between coroner and procurement organization.
(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.
Source: L. 2017: Entire part added with relocations, (SB 17-223), ch. 158, p. 551, § 1, effective August 9.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-34-122 as it existed prior to 2017.
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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