(a) The State Medical Examiner and his or her assistants may remove the pituitary gland during the course of an autopsy and donate the pituitary gland to an appropriate organization.
(b) However, the pituitary gland shall not be removed under the authority of this section if the next of kin or the person having the right to control the disposition of the decedent's remains objects.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs
Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs
Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations
Subchapter 3 - State Crime Laboratory
§ 12-12-302. Board created — Members — Meetings
§ 12-12-303. Board's powers and duties generally
§ 12-12-304. Director of the State Crime Laboratory
§ 12-12-305. Housing and equipment — Functions
§ 12-12-306. State Medical Examiner
§ 12-12-307. Medical examiners — Qualifications — Duties
§ 12-12-308. Medical examiners — Professional liability insurance
§ 12-12-309. Utilization of outside personnel
§ 12-12-310. Reimbursement for use of outside faculty
§ 12-12-311. Cooperation by others required — Tort immunity
§ 12-12-312. Records confidential and privileged — Exception — Release
§ 12-12-313. Records as evidence — Analyst's testimony
§ 12-12-314. Fees — Disposition
§ 12-12-315. Notification of certain deaths
§ 12-12-316. Transportation of corpses
§ 12-12-317. Death certificates
§ 12-12-319. Embalming corpse subject to examination, investigation, or autopsy — Penalty
§ 12-12-320. Autopsies — Removal of pituitary gland
§ 12-12-321. Autopsies — Exhumed bodies
§ 12-12-322. Hazardous duty pay
§ 12-12-323. Crime Lab Equipment Fund