(a) A coroner and a state medical examiner shall cooperate with procurement organizations to maximize the opportunity to recover anatomical gifts for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education.
(b) If a coroner or a state 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 coroner or state medical examiner and a postmortem examination is going to be performed, unless the coroner or state medical examiner denies recovery under AS 13.52.257, the coroner, the state medical examiner, or a designee shall conduct a postmortem examination of the body or the part 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 a coroner or a state 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 coroner or state 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 a coroner or the state medical examiner from performing the medicolegal investigation on the body or parts of a decedent under the jurisdiction of the coroner or state medical examiner.
Structure Alaska Statutes
Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions
Chapter 52. Health Care Decisions Act
Sec. 13.52.010. Advance health care directives.
Sec. 13.52.020. Revocation of advance health care directive.
Sec. 13.52.025. Rescission of withdrawal by agent.
Sec. 13.52.040. Decisions by guardian.
Sec. 13.52.045. Withholding or withdrawing of life-sustaining procedures.
Sec. 13.52.050. Decisions for exceptional procedures.
Sec. 13.52.060. Obligations of health care providers, institutions, and facilities.
Sec. 13.52.065. Do not resuscitate protocol and identification requirements.
Sec. 13.52.070. Health care information.
Sec. 13.52.090. Statutory damages.
Sec. 13.52.110. Status of copy.
Sec. 13.52.120. Effect of this chapter.
Sec. 13.52.130. Prohibited requirements.
Sec. 13.52.135. Discriminatory treatment prohibited.
Sec. 13.52.140. Judicial relief.
Sec. 13.52.150. Do not resuscitate orders and identification of other jurisdictions.
Sec. 13.52.160. Determination of qualifying condition.
Sec. 13.52.173. Who may make anatomical gift before donor's death.
Sec. 13.52.177. Manner of making anatomical gift before donor's death.
Sec. 13.52.183. Amending or revoking anatomical gift before donor's death.
Sec. 13.52.187. Refusal to make anatomical gift; effect of refusal.
Sec. 13.52.193. Preclusive effect of anatomical gift, amendment, or revocation.
Sec. 13.52.197. Who may make anatomical gift of decedent's body or part.
Sec. 13.52.203. Manner of making, amending, or revoking anatomical gift of decedent's body or part.
Sec. 13.52.207. Persons who may receive anatomical gift; purpose of anatomical gift.
Sec. 13.52.213. Search and notification.
Sec. 13.52.217. Delivery of document of gift not required; right to examine.
Sec. 13.52.223. Rights and duties of procurement organization and others.
Sec. 13.52.227. Coordination of procurement and use.
Sec. 13.52.233. Sale or purchase of parts prohibited; charges allowed.
Sec. 13.52.253. Effect of anatomical gift on advance health care directive.
Sec. 13.52.255. Cooperation between coroner, state medical examiner, and procurement organization.
Sec. 13.52.263. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.
Sec. 13.52.267. Uniformity of application and construction.
Sec. 13.52.268. Definitions for AS 13.52.173 - 13.52.268.
Sec. 13.52.275. Construction where mental illness.