142.3 Notification of department.
Every county medical examiner, funeral director or embalmer, and the managing officer of every public asylum, hospital, county care facility, penitentiary, or reformatory, as soon as any dead body shall come into the person’s custody which may be used for scientific purposes as provided in sections 142.1 and 142.2, shall at once notify the nearest relative or friend of the deceased, if known, and the Iowa department of public health, and hold such body unburied for forty-eight hours. Upon receipt of notification, the department shall issue verbal or written instructions relative to the disposition to be made of said body. Complete jurisdiction over said bodies is vested exclusively in the Iowa department of public health. No autopsy or post mortem, except as are legally ordered by county medical examiners, shall be performed on any of said bodies prior to their delivery to the medical schools.
[S13, §4946-c; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §2353; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §142.3]
2013 Acts, ch 90, §28
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 142 - DEAD BODIES FOR SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES
Section 142.1 - Delivery of bodies.
Section 142.2 - Furnished to physicians.
Section 142.3 - Notification of department.
Section 142.4 - Surrender to relatives.
Section 142.5 - Disposition after dissection.
Section 142.6 - Record of receipt.
Section 142.7 - Record and bodies.
Section 142.8 - Purpose for which body used.
Section 142.9 - Failure to deliver dead body.