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§ 32.1-277. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner; central and district offices and facilities - The Commissioner shall establish and maintain, for the purpose of...
§ 32.1-278. Appointment and qualifications of Chief Medical Examiner - A Chief Medical Examiner, who shall be a forensic pathologist...
§ 32.1-279. Duties of Chief Medical Examiner; teaching legal medicine - A. The Chief Medical Examiner shall carry out the provisions...
§ 32.1-280. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2014, c. 583, cl. 2.
§ 32.1-281. Commissioner may obtain additional services and facilities - In the investigation of any death or for the performance...
§ 32.1-282. Medical examiners - A. The Chief Medical Examiner may appoint for each county...
§ 32.1-282.1. Per diem medicolegal death investigators - The Chief Medical Examiner may appoint per diem medicolegal death...
§ 32.1-283. Investigation of deaths; obtaining consent to removal of organs, etc.; fees - A. Upon the death of any person from trauma, injury,...
§ 32.1-283.1. State Child Fatality Review Team; membership; access to and maintenance of records; confidentiality; etc. - A. There is hereby created the State Child Fatality Review...
§ 32.1-283.2. Local and regional child fatality review teams established; membership; authority; confidentiality; immunity - A. Upon the initiative of any local or regional law-enforcement...
§ 32.1-283.3. Family violence fatality review teams established; model protocol and data management; membership; authority; confidentiality, etc. - A. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner shall develop...
§ 32.1-283.4. Confidentiality of certain information and records collected and maintained by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner - A. Confidential records and information obtained from private and public...
§ 32.1-283.5. Adult Fatality Review Team; duties; membership; confidentiality; penalties; report; etc. - A. There is hereby created the Adult Fatality Review Team,...
§ 32.1-283.6. Local and regional adult fatality review teams established; membership; authority; confidentiality; immunity - A. Upon the initiative of any local or regional law-enforcement...
§ 32.1-283.7. Local and regional overdose fatality review teams established; membership; authority; confidentiality; immunity - A. Any county or city, or combination of counties, cities,...
§ 32.1-283.8. Maternal Mortality Review Team; duties; membership; confidentiality; penalties; report; etc. - A. As used in this section, "maternal death" means the...
§ 32.1-284. Repealed - Repealed by acts 2014, c. 228, cl. 2, effective March...
§ 32.1-285. Autopsies - A. If, in the opinion of the Office of the...
§ 32.1-285.1. Death of infants under eighteen months of age; autopsies required; definition of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome - An autopsy shall be performed in the case of any...
§ 32.1-286. Exhumations - A. In any case of death described in subsection A...
§ 32.1-287. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2007, cc. 92 and 907, cl. 2.
§ 32.1-288. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2014, c. 228, cl. 2, effective March...
§ 32.1-289. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2007, cc. 92 and 907, cl. 2.
§ 32.1-289.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2007, c. 92, cl. 2.
§ 32.1-289.2. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 465, cl....
§ 32.1-290. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2007, cc. 92 and 907, cl. 2.
§ 32.1-290.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2008, c. 82, cl. 2.
§ 32.1-291. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2007, cc. 92 and 907, cl. 2.
§ 32.1-291.1. Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act; short title - This Act consists of §§ 32.1-291.1 through 32.1-291.25 and may...
§ 32.1-291.2. Definitions - As used in this Act, unless the context requires otherwise:...
§ 32.1-291.3. Applicability of Act - This Act applies to an anatomical gift or amendment to,...
§ 32.1-291.4. Who may make anatomical gift before donor's death - Subject to § 32.1-291.8, an anatomical gift of a donor's...
§ 32.1-291.5. Manner of making anatomical gift before donor's death - A. A donor may make an anatomical gift: 1. By...
§ 32.1-291.6. Amending or revoking anatomical gift before donor's death - A. Subject to § 32.1-291.8, a donor or other person...
§ 32.1-291.7. Refusal to make anatomical gift; effect of refusal - A. An individual may refuse to make an anatomical gift...
§ 32.1-291.8. Preclusive effect of anatomical gift, amendment, or revocation - A. Except as otherwise provided in subsection G and subject...
§ 32.1-291.9. Who may make anatomical gift of decedent's body or part - A. Subject to subsections B and C and unless barred...
§ 32.1-291.10. Manner of making, amending, or revoking anatomical gift of decedent's body or part - A. A person authorized to make an anatomical gift under...
§ 32.1-291.11. Persons that may receive anatomical gift; purpose of anatomical gift - A. An anatomical gift may be made to the following...
§ 32.1-291.12. Search and notification - A. The following persons shall make a reasonable search of...
§ 32.1-291.13. Delivery of document of gift not required; right to examine - A. A document of gift need not be delivered during...
§ 32.1-291.14. Rights and duties of procurement organization and others - A. When a hospital refers an individual who is dead...
§ 32.1-291.15. Coordination of procurement and use - Each hospital in this state shall enter into agreements or...
§ 32.1-291.16. Sale or purchase of parts prohibited; penalty - A. With the exception of hair, ova, blood, and other...
§ 32.1-291.17. Falsification, etc of document of gift; penalty - A person that, in order to obtain a financial gain,...
§ 32.1-291.18. Immunity - A. A person that acts in accordance with this Act...
§ 32.1-291.19. Law governing validity; choice of law as to execution of document of gift; presumption of validity - A. A document of gift is valid if executed in...
§ 32.1-291.20. Donor registry - For the purposes of this Act, the donor registry is...
§ 32.1-291.21. Effect of anatomical gift on advance health-care directive - A. In this section: "Advance health-care directive" means an advance...
§ 32.1-291.22. Cooperation between Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and procurement organization - A. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and procurement...
§ 32.1-291.23. Facilitation of anatomical gift from decedent whose body is under jurisdiction of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner - A. Upon request of a procurement organization, the Office of...
§ 32.1-291.24. Uniformity of application and construction - In applying and construing this uniform act, consideration shall be...
§ 32.1-291.25. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act - This Act modifies, limits, and supersedes the Electronic Signatures in...
§ 32.1-292. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1990, c. 959.
§ 32.1-292.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2007, cc. 92 and 907, cl. 2.
§ 32.1-292.2. The Virginia Donor Registry - A. In order to save lives by reducing the shortage...
§ 32.1-293. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2007, cc. 92 and 907, cl. 2.
§ 32.1-294. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1990, c. 959.
§ 32.1-295. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2007, cc. 92 and 907, cl. 2.
§ 32.1-296. Determination of death - The provisions of § 54.1-2972 shall be applicable for the...
§ 32.1-297. Action for implied warranty in connection with transfer of blood or human tissue - No action for implied warranty shall lie for the procurement,...
§ 32.1-297.1. The Virginia Transplant Council - A. The Virginia Transplant Council (hereinafter referred to as the...
§ 32.1-297.2. Discrimination prohibited - A. As used in this section: "Auxiliary aids or services"...
§ 32.1-298. Notification of Commissioner and delivery of bodies - Any person having charge or control of any dead human...
§ 32.1-299. Distribution of bodies - A. The bodies received pursuant to § 32.1-298 shall be...
§ 32.1-300. Records of bodies distributed - The Commissioner shall keep a record of all bodies received...
§ 32.1-301. Burial, cremation, or return of bodies after scientific study - After the bodies distributed pursuant to § 32.1-299 have been...
§ 32.1-302. Importation of anatomical material - The Commissioner may, in his discretion, on the application of...
§ 32.1-303. Penalty for trafficking in bodies - Except as provided in §§ 32.1-299 and 32.1-302, if any...
§ 32.1-304. General penalty for violation - If any person fail or refuse to perform any duty...
§ 32.1-305. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1998, c. 867.