130A-418. Deceased migrant agricultural workers and their dependents.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, a person having knowledge of the death of a migrant agricultural worker or a worker's dependent shall without delay report the death to the department of social services in the county in which the body is located together with any information regarding the deceased including identity, place of employment, permanent residence, and the name, address and telephone number of any relative and any interested person. The county department of social services shall, within a reasonable time of receiving this report, transmit to the Department notice of the death and information received upon notification. The Department shall make reasonable effort to inform the next-of-kin and any interested person of the death.
(b) If the identity of the person cannot be determined within a reasonable period of time, or if the body is unclaimed 10 days after death, the body shall be offered to the Commission of Anatomy and, upon its request, shall be delivered to the Commission of Anatomy. If the Commission of Anatomy does not request an unclaimed body offered it or the estate, and if the relatives or other interested persons claiming the body are unable to provide for the final disposition of the migrant agricultural worker or dependent, the Department is authorized and directed to arrange for the final disposition of the decedent.
(c) If the estate, relatives or interested persons are able to provide for final disposition but are unable to effect the transportation of the decedent to the decedent's legal residence or the legal residence of the relatives or interested persons, the Department is authorized and directed to allocate a sum of not more than two hundred dollars ($200.00) to defray the transportation expenses.
(d) The Secretary is authorized to adopt rules necessary to implement this section. (1975, c. 891; 1977, c. 648; 1983, c. 891, s. 2.)
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.