§ 1111. Persons authorized to perform autopsy; authorization for postmortem examination
Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated StatutesTitle 35 P.S. Health and Safety
35 P.S. § 1111
§ 1111. Persons authorized to perform autopsy; authorization for postmortem examination
An autopsy or postmortem examination may be performed upon the body of a deceased person by a physician licensed under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to engage in the practice of medicine and surgery in all of its branches within the scope of the act approved the third day of June, one thousand nine hundred eleven (Pamphlet Laws 639), and its amendments,1 or in the practice of osteopathy or osteopathic surgery within the scope of the act, approved the nineteenth day of March one thousand nine hundred nine (Pamphlet Laws 46), and its amendments,2 when the dead body is claimed within thirty-six hours after death for burial at the expense of the claimant and authorization for the postmortem examination has been obtained in any of the following manners:
(4) If the surviving spouse is incompetent, unavailable or does not claim the body for burial, or if there is no surviving spouse, by written authorization of the following in order of precedence if the claimant agrees to provide burial: (i) adult children, (ii) adult grandchildren, (iii) parents, (iv) brothers or sisters, (v) nephews or nieces, (vi) grandparents, (vii) uncles or aunts, (viii) cousins, (ix) stepchildren, (x) relatives or next of kin of previously deceased spouse.
Credits
1956, May 24, P.L. (1955) 1702, § 1.
Footnotes
63 P.S. § 401 et seq. (repealed); see, 63 P.S. § 422.1 et seq.
63 P.S. §§ 261 262, 264 to 268, 269 to 271; 71 P.S. §§ 1141 to 1144 (repealed); see, 63 P.S. § 271.1 et seq.
35 P.S. § 1111, PA ST 35 P.S. § 1111
Current through Act 10 of the 2024 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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