Oklahoma § 63-91 - State Anatomical Board - Creation and membership – Duties –

§ 63-91. State Anatomical Board - Creation and membership – Duties –

Organization – Rules - Records of bodies received and distributed Exemptions.

A. There is hereby re-created, to continue until July 1, 2030,

in accordance with the provisions of the Oklahoma Sunset Law, an

oversight board to be known as the State Anatomical Board, to be

composed of the following members:

1. The deans or their designee of each accredited medical

school and osteopathic medical school within this state;

2. The persons heading the department of anatomy, or comparable

department, in the medical and osteopathic medical schools or their

designee;

3. Two persons appointed jointly by the presidents of

institutions of higher education within the state which have

educational programs other than medical which require on a regular

basis human anatomical materials, provided that these programs have

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been approved by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education;

and

4. One at-large member appointed by the Governor to represent

the interests of the citizens of this state.

B. It shall be the duty of the State Anatomical Board to

register all anatomical donor programs and non-transplant tissue

banks and to designate agents to provide for the collection,

preservation, storage, distribution, delivery, recovery from users,

cremation and final disposition of all dead human bodies used for

health science education and research in this state.

C. The Board shall elect from its membership a chair who shall

perform such other duties as the Board may prescribe by rule. The

Board shall have full power to establish rules for its government,

to appoint and remove officers, and to appoint an executive director

who shall keep full and complete minutes of its transactions and

manage the affairs of the Board. The expenditures authorized in

this section shall not be a charge against the state, but shall be

paid by the agent designated by the Board to receive, store, issue,

and cremate human anatomical materials. Records shall also be kept

by the agent of all bodies received and distributed for the period

of time authorized by the Records Disposition Schedule. The name of

the oversight board shall be the State Anatomical Board, hereinafter

called the Anatomical Board. The Anatomical Board may, in its

discretion, exempt any county, district, or institution from the

provisions of Sections 91 through 100 of this title in any calendar

year for any length of time.

Added by Laws 1935, p. 57, § 1, emerg. eff. April 16, 1935. Amended

by Laws 1969, c. 141, § 1, emerg. eff. April 9, 1969; Laws 1976, c.

126, § 1, emerg. eff. May 18, 1976; Laws 1982, c. 97, § 1, operative

Oct. 1, 1982; Laws 1988, c. 225, § 20; Laws 1994, c. 9, § 1; Laws

2000, c. 92, § 1; Laws 2006, c. 114, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2006; Laws

2012, c. 119, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2012; Laws 2013, c. 15, § 76, emerg.

eff. April 8, 2013; Laws 2016, c. 48, § 1; Laws 2020, c. 116, § 19,

eff. July 1, 2020; Laws 2023, c. 90, § 1; Laws 2025, c. 264, § 1,

eff. July 1, 2025.

NOTE: Laws 2006, c. 54, § 1 repealed by Laws 2007, c. 1, § 53,

emerg. eff. Feb. 22, 2007. Laws 2012, c. 62, § 1 repealed by Laws

2013, c. 15, § 77, emerg. eff. April 8, 2013.