130A-395. Handling and transportation of bodies.
(a) It shall be the duty of the physician licensed to practice medicine under Chapter 90 attending any person who dies and is known to have smallpox, plague, HIV infection, hepatitis B infection, rabies, or Jakob-Creutzfeldt to provide written notification to all individuals handling the body of the proper precautions to prevent infection. This written notification shall be provided to funeral service personnel at the time the body is removed from any hospital, nursing home, or other health care facility. When the patient dies in a location other than a health care facility, the attending physician shall notify the funeral service personnel verbally of the precautions required in subsections (b) and (c) as soon as the physician becomes aware of the death.
(b) The body of a person who died from smallpox or plague shall not be embalmed. The body shall be enclosed in a strong, tightly sealed outer case which will prevent leakage or escape of odors as soon as possible after death and before the body is removed from the hospital room, home, building, or other premises where the death occurred. This case shall not be reopened except with the consent of the local health director.
(c) Persons handling bodies of persons who died and were known to have HIV infection, hepatitis B infection, Jakob-Creutzfeldt, or rabies shall be provided written notification to observe blood and body fluid precautions. (1989, c. 698, s. 4.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Article 16 - Postmortem Investigation and Disposition.
§ 130A-377 - Establishment and maintenance of central and district offices.
§ 130A-378 - Qualifications and appointment of the Chief Medical Examiner.
§ 130A-379 - Duties of the Chief Medical Examiner.
§ 130A-380 - The Chief Medical Examiner's staff.
§ 130A-381 - Additional services and facilities.
§ 130A-383 - Medical examiner jurisdiction.
§ 130A-384 - Notification concerning out-of-state body.
§ 130A-385 - Duties of medical examiner upon receipt of notice; reports; copies.
§ 130A-386 - Subpoena authority.
§ 130A-388 - Medical examiner's permission necessary before embalming, burial and cremation.
§ 130A-389.1 - Photographs and video or audio recordings made pursuant to autopsy.
§ 130A-392 - Reports and records as evidence.
§ 130A-394 - Coroner to hold inquests.
§ 130A-395 - Handling and transportation of bodies.
§ 130A-398 - Limitation on right to perform autopsy.
§ 130A-399 - Postmortem examination of inmates of certain public institutions.
§ 130A-400 - Written consent for postmortem examinations required.
§ 130A-401 - Postmortem examinations in certain medical schools.
§ 130A-412.6 - Who may make an anatomical gift before donor's death.
§ 130A-412.7 - Manner of making anatomical gift before donor's death.
§ 130A-412.8 - Amending or revoking anatomical gift before donor's death.
§ 130A-412.9 - Refusal to make anatomical gift; effect of refusal.
§ 130A-412.10 - Preclusive effect of an anatomical gift, amendment, or revocation.
§ 130A-412.11 - Who may make an anatomical gift of decedent's body or body part.
§ 130A-412.13 - Persons that may receive anatomical gift; purpose of anatomical gift.
§ 130A-412.14 - Search and notification.
§ 130A-412.15 - Delivery of document of gift not required; right to examine.
§ 130A-412.16 - Rights and duties of procurement organization and others.
§ 130A-412.17 - Coordination of procurement and use.
§ 130A-412.18 - Sale or purchase of body parts prohibited.
§ 130A-412.19 - Other prohibited acts.
§ 130A-412.22 - Donor registry.
§ 130A-412.23 - Cooperation between a medical examiner and the procurement organization.
§ 130A-412.30 - Use of tissue declared a service; standard of care; burden of proof.
§ 130A-412.31 - Giving of blood by persons 16 years of age or more.
§ 130A-412.32 - Duty of hospitals to establish organ procurement protocols.
§ 130A-412.33 - Duty of designated organ procurement organizations and tissue banks.
§ 130A-414.1 - Legislative findings and declaration of policy.
§ 130A-414.3 - Organ transplant discrimination on the basis of disability prohibited.
§ 130A-416 - Commission of Anatomy rules.
§ 130A-418 - Deceased migrant agricultural workers and their dependents.
§ 130A-420 - Authority to dispose of body or body parts.
§ 130A-421 - Parental consent to disposition of fetal remains.