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VA Code § 32.1-281 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 8 - Postmortem Examinations and Services|§ 32.1-281. Commissioner may obtain additional services and facilities

In the investigation of any death or for the performance of any autopsy authorized or required pursuant to this article, the Commissioner may enter into an agreement for the provision of services with a qualified pathologist or consultant, designated by the Chief Medical Examiner, to perform such autopsy or to make such studies and investigations as may be deemed necessary or advisable by the Chief Medical Examiner and may arrange for the use of mortuary facilities. In any case in which the Commissioner enters into an agreement for the provision of services with a qualified pathologist or consultant in accordance with this section, the cost of such services shall be paid out of funds appropriated for such purpose.Code 1950, § 32-31.15; 1960, c. 366; 1972, c. 741; 1975, c. 475; 1979, c. 711; 1998, c. 217; 2014, c. 583.
VA Code § 32.1-282 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 8 - Postmortem Examinations and Services|§ 32.1-282. Medical examiners

A. The Chief Medical Examiner may appoint for each county and city one or more medical examiners, who shall be licensed as a doctor of medicine or osteopathic medicine, a physician assistant, or a nurse practitioner in the Commonwealth and appointed as agents of the Commonwealth, to assist the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner with medicolegal death investigations. A physician assistant appointed as a medical examiner shall have a practice agreement with and be under the continuous supervision of a physician medical examiner in accordance with § 54.1-2952. A nurse practitioner appointed as a medical examiner shall practice in accordance with § 54.1-2957.B. At the request of the Chief Medical Examiner, the Assistant Chief Medical Examiner, or their designees, medical examiners may assist the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner with cases requiring medicolegal death investigations in accordance with § 32.1-283.C. The term of each medical examiner appointed, other than an appointment to fill a vacancy, shall begin on the first day of October of the year of appointment. The term of each medical examiner shall be three years; however, an appointment to fill a vacancy shall be for the unexpired term.Code 1950, § 32-31.16; 1952, c. 318; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 475; 1979, c. 711; 2014, c. 583; 2015, c. 107; 2017, c. 170; 2018, c. 776.
VA Code § 32.1-282.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 8 - Postmortem Examinations and Services|§ 32.1-282.1. Per diem medicolegal death investigators

The Chief Medical Examiner may appoint per diem medicolegal death investigators, who shall have knowledge of standards and procedures for medicolegal death investigations, to assist the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner with medicolegal death investigations. Per diem medicolegal death investigators shall be agents of the Commonwealth.2015, c. 53.
VA Code § 32.1-283.4 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 8 - Postmortem Examinations and Services|§ 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 entities and provided to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner during the course of a death investigation shall remain confidential and shall not be subject to the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (§ 2.2-3700 et seq.).B. Information and records concerning a decedent collected and maintained by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner during the course of surveillance programs or research or studies of deaths having public health importance shall be confidential and may only be published in summary or aggregate form or as authorized by the Chief Medical Examiner.C. The confidential records and information set forth in subsections A and B shall not be subject to subpoena, subpoena duces tecum, or discovery when in the possession of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, or be admissible in any criminal or civil proceeding through any discovery relating to the Office. If available from other sources, however, such records and information shall not be immune from subpoena duces tecum, or discovery when obtained through such other sources solely because the records and information were presented to the Office during a death investigation.D. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the disclosure or publication of the findings of investigations, surveillance programs, research, and studies in aggregate or statistical form from which personal identifiers have been removed.2005, c. 37; 2007, c. 868.
VA Code § 32.1-285 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 8 - Postmortem Examinations and Services|§ 32.1-285. Autopsies

A. If, in the opinion of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, it is advisable and in the public interest that an autopsy be made as part of the investigation of the death, or if an autopsy is requested by the attorney for the Commonwealth or by a judge of the circuit court of the county or city wherein such body is or where death occurred or wherein any injury contributing to or causing death was sustained, an autopsy shall be performed by the Chief Medical Examiner, an Assistant Chief Medical Examiner, or a pathologist with whom the Commissioner has entered into an agreement in accordance with § 32.1-281. Upon petition of a member of the immediate family or the spouse of the deceased in a case of death by injury, such circuit court may, for good cause shown, order an autopsy, after providing notice and an opportunity to be heard to the attorney for the Commonwealth for the jurisdiction wherein the injury contributing to or causing death was sustained or where death occurred. Further, in all cases of death suspected to be attributable to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), an autopsy shall be advisable and in the public interest and shall be performed as required by § 32.1-285.1. A full record and report of the facts developed by the autopsy and findings of the person making such autopsy shall be promptly made and filed with the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and a copy furnished the judge or attorney for the Commonwealth requesting such autopsy. In the discretion of the Chief Medical Examiner or an Assistant Chief Medical Examiner, a copy of any autopsy report or findings may be furnished to any appropriate attorney for the Commonwealth and to the appropriate law-enforcement agency investigating the death.B. In the case of a child death investigation that indicates child abuse or neglect contributed to the death, or that the child suffered from abuse and neglect, the case shall be immediately reported to the child protective services unit of the local Department of Social Services by the Chief Medical Examiner, an Assistant Chief Medical Examiner, or a medical examiner appointed pursuant to § 32.1-282.Code 1950, § 32-31.19; 1952, c. 318; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 475; 1979, c. 711; 1989, c. 66; 1991, c. 644; 1993, c. 965; 2003, c. 368; 2014, c. 583.
VA Code § 32.1-285.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 8 - Postmortem Examinations and Services|§ 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 infant death which is suspected to be attributable to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).For the purposes of this section, "Sudden Infant Death Syndrome" (SIDS), a diagnosis of exclusion, means the sudden and unexpected death of an infant less than eighteen months of age whose death remains unexplained after a thorough postmortem examination which includes an autopsy.1993, c. 965.
VA Code § 32.1-291.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 8 - Postmortem Examinations and Services|§ 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 be cited as the Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.2007, cc. 92, 907.
VA Code § 32.1-291.3 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 8 - Postmortem Examinations and Services|§ 32.1-291.3. Applicability of Act

This Act applies to an anatomical gift or amendment to, revocation of, or refusal to make an anatomical gift, whenever made. 2007, cc. 92, 907.
VA Code § 32.1-291.4 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 8 - Postmortem Examinations and Services|§ 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 body or part may be made during the life of the donor for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education in the manner provided in § 32.1-291.5 by:1. The donor, if the donor is an adult or if the donor is a minor and is:a. Emancipated; orb. Authorized under state law to apply for a driver's license because the donor is at least 15 years and six months of age;2. An agent of the donor, unless the power of attorney for health care or other record prohibits the agent from making an anatomical gift;3. A parent of the donor, if the donor is an unemancipated minor; or4. The donor's guardian.2007, cc. 92, 907.
VA Code § 32.1-291.5 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 8 - Postmortem Examinations and Services|§ 32.1-291.5. Manner of making anatomical gift before donor's death

A. A donor may make an anatomical gift:1. By authorizing a statement or symbol indicating that the donor has made an anatomical gift to be imprinted on the donor's driver's license or identification card;2. In a will;3. During a terminal illness or injury of the donor, by any form of communication addressed to at least two adults; or4. As provided in subsection B.B. A donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under § 32.1-291.4 may make a gift by a donor card or other record signed by the donor or other person making the gift or by authorizing that a statement or symbol indicating that the donor has made an anatomical gift be included on a donor registry. If the donor or other person is physically unable to sign a record, the record may be signed by another individual at the direction of the donor or other person and shall:1. Be witnessed by at least two adults, who have signed at the request of the donor or the other person; and2. State that it has been signed and witnessed as provided in subdivision 1.C. Revocation, suspension, expiration, or cancellation of a driver's license or identification card upon which an anatomical gift is indicated does not invalidate the gift.D. An anatomical gift made by will takes effect upon the donor's death whether or not the will is probated. Invalidation of the will after the donor's death does not invalidate the gift.2007, cc. 92, 907.
VA Code § 32.1-291.6 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 8 - Postmortem Examinations and Services|§ 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 authorized to make an anatomical gift under § 32.1-291.4 may amend or revoke an anatomical gift by:1. A record signed by:a. The donor;b. The other person; orc. Subject to subsection B, another individual acting at the direction of the donor or the other person if the donor or other person is physically unable to sign; or2. Later-executed document of gift that amends or revokes a previous anatomical gift or portion of an anatomical gift, either expressly or by inconsistency.B. A record signed pursuant to subdivision A 1 c shall:1. Be witnessed by at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness, who have signed at the request of the donor or the other person; and2. State that it has been signed and witnessed as provided in subdivision 1.C. Subject to § 32.1-291.8, a donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under § 32.1-291.4 may revoke an anatomical gift by the destruction or cancellation of the document of gift, or the portion of the document of gift used to make the gift, with the intent to revoke the gift.D. A donor may amend or revoke an anatomical gift that was not made in a will by any form of communication during a terminal illness or injury addressed to at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness.E. A donor who makes an anatomical gift in a will may amend or revoke the gift in the manner provided for amendment or revocation of wills or as provided in subsection A.2007, cc. 92, 907.
VA Code § 32.1-291.7 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 8 - Postmortem Examinations and Services|§ 32.1-291.7. Refusal to make anatomical gift; effect of refusal

A. An individual may refuse to make an anatomical gift of the individual's body or part by:1. A record signed by:a. The individual; orb. Subject to subsection B, another individual acting at the direction of the individual if the individual is physically unable to sign;2. The individual's will, whether or not the will is admitted to probate or invalidated after the individual's death; or3. Any form of communication made by the individual during the individual's terminal illness or injury addressed to at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness.B. A record signed pursuant to subdivision A 1 b shall:1. Be witnessed by at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness, who have signed at the request of the individual; and2. State that it has been signed and witnessed as provided in subdivision 1.C. An individual who has made a refusal may amend or revoke the refusal:1. In the manner provided in subsection A for making a refusal;2. By subsequently making an anatomical gift pursuant to § 32.1-291.5 that is inconsistent with the refusal; or3. By destroying or canceling the record evidencing the refusal, or the portion of the record used to make the refusal, with the intent to revoke the refusal.D. Except as otherwise provided in subsection H of § 32.1-291.8, in the absence of an express, contrary indication by the individual set forth in the refusal, an individual's unrevoked refusal to make an anatomical gift of the individual's body or part bars all other persons from making an anatomical gift of the individual's body or part.2007, cc. 92, 907.
VA Code § 32.1-291.8 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 8 - Postmortem Examinations and Services|§ 32.1-291.8. Preclusive effect of anatomical gift, amendment, or revocation

A. Except as otherwise provided in subsection G and subject to subsection F, in the absence of an express, contrary indication by the donor, a person other than the donor is barred from making, amending, or revoking an anatomical gift of a donor's body or part if the donor made an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under § 32.1-291.5 or an amendment to an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under § 32.1-291.6.B. A donor's revocation of an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under § 32.1-291.6 is not a refusal and does not bar another person specified in § 32.1-291.4 or 32.1-291.9 from making an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under § 32.1-291.5 or 32.1-291.10.C. If a person other than the donor makes an unrevoked anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under § 32.1-291.5 or an amendment to an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under § 32.1-291.6, another person may not make, amend, or revoke the gift of the donor's body or part under § 32.1-291.10.D. A revocation of an anatomical gift of a donor's body or part under § 32.1-291.6 by a person other than the donor does not bar another person from making an anatomical gift of the body or part under § 32.1-291.5 or 32.1-291.10.E. In the absence of an express, contrary indication by the donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under § 32.1-291.4, an anatomical gift of a part is neither a refusal to give another part nor a limitation on the making of an anatomical gift of another part at a later time by the donor or another person.F. In the absence of an express, contrary indication by the donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under § 32.1-291.4, an anatomical gift of a part for one or more of the purposes set forth in § 32.1-291.4 is not a limitation on the making of an anatomical gift of the part for any of the other purposes by the donor or any other person under § 32.1-291.5 or 32.1-291.10.G. If a donor who is an unemancipated minor dies, a parent of the donor who is reasonably available may revoke or amend an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part.H. If an unemancipated minor who signed a refusal dies, a parent of the minor who is reasonably available may revoke the minor's refusal.2007, cc. 92, 907.
VA Code § 32.1-291.9 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 8 - Postmortem Examinations and Services|§ 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 by § 32.1-291.7 or 32.1-291.8, an anatomical gift of a decedent's body or part for purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education may be made by any member of the following classes of persons who is reasonably available, in the order of priority listed:1. An agent of the decedent at the time of death who could have made an anatomical gift under subdivision 2 of § 32.1-291.4 immediately before the decedent's death;2. The persons who were acting as the guardians of the person of the decedent at the time of death;3. The spouse of the decedent;4. Adult children of the decedent;5. Parents of the decedent;6. Adult siblings of the decedent;7. Adult grandchildren of the decedent;8. Grandparents of the decedent;9. An adult who exhibited special care and concern for the decedent; and10. Any other person having the authority to dispose of the decedent's body.B. If there is more than one member of a class listed in subdivisions A 1, A 2, A 4, A 5, A 6, A 7, or A 8 entitled to make an anatomical gift, an anatomical gift may be made by a member of the class unless that member or a person to which the gift may pass under § 32.1-291.11 knows of an objection by another member of the class. If an objection is known, the gift may be made only by those members who constitute at least 50 percent of the class who are reasonably available.C. A person may not make an anatomical gift if, at the time of the decedent's death, a person in a prior class under subsection A is reasonably available to make or to object to the making of an anatomical gift.2007, cc. 92, 907.
VA Code § 32.1-291.10 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 8 - Postmortem Examinations and Services|§ 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 § 32.1-291.9 may make an anatomical gift by a document of gift signed by the person making the gift or by that person's oral communication that is electronically recorded or is contemporaneously reduced to a record and signed by the individual receiving the oral communication.B. Subject to subsection C, an anatomical gift by a person authorized under § 32.1-291.9 may be amended or revoked orally or in a record by any member of a prior class who is reasonably available. If more than one member of the prior class is reasonably available, the gift made by a person authorized under § 32.1-291.9 may be:1. Amended only if a majority of the reasonably available members agree to the amending of the gift; or2. Revoked only if a majority of the reasonably available members agree to the revoking of the gift.C. A revocation under subsection B is effective only if, before an incision has been made to remove a part from the donor's body or before invasive procedures have begun to prepare the recipient, the procurement organization, transplant hospital, or physician or technician knows of the revocation.2007, cc. 92, 907.
VA Code § 32.1-291.12 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 8 - Postmortem Examinations and Services|§ 32.1-291.12. Search and notification

A. The following persons shall make a reasonable search of an individual who the person reasonably believes is dead or whose death is imminent for a document of gift or other information identifying the individual as a donor or as an individual who made a refusal:1. A law-enforcement officer, a firefighter, emergency medical services personnel, or other emergency rescuer finding the individual; and2. If no other source of the information is immediately available, a hospital, as soon as practical after the individual's arrival at the hospital.B. If a document of gift or a refusal to make an anatomical gift is located by the search required by subdivision A 1 and the individual or deceased individual to whom it relates is taken to a hospital, the person responsible for conducting the search shall send the document of gift or refusal to the hospital.C. A person is not subject to criminal or civil liability for failing to discharge the duties imposed by this section but may be subject to administrative sanctions.2007, cc. 92, 907; 2015, cc. 502, 503.
VA Code § 32.1-291.13 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 8 - Postmortem Examinations and Services|§ 32.1-291.13. Delivery of document of gift not required; right to examine

A. A document of gift need not be delivered during the donor's lifetime to be effective.B. Upon or after an individual's death, a person in possession of a document of gift or a refusal to make an anatomical gift with respect to the individual shall allow examination and copying of the document of gift or refusal by a person authorized to make or object to the making of an anatomical gift with respect to the individual or by a person to which the gift could pass under § 32.1-291.11.2007, cc. 92, 907.
VA Code § 32.1-291.15 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 8 - Postmortem Examinations and Services|§ 32.1-291.15. Coordination of procurement and use

Each hospital in this state shall enter into agreements or affiliations with procurement organizations for coordination of procurement and use of anatomical gifts. 2007, cc. 92, 907.
VA Code § 32.1-291.16 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 8 - Postmortem Examinations and Services|§ 32.1-291.16. Sale or purchase of parts prohibited; penalty

A. With the exception of hair, ova, blood, and other self-replicating body fluids, it shall be unlawful for any person to sell, to offer to sell, to buy, to offer to buy, or to procure through purchase any natural body part for any reason including, but not limited to, medical and scientific uses such as transplantation, implantation, infusion, or injection. Any person engaging in any of these prohibited activities shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony.B. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the reimbursement of reasonable expenses associated with the removal, processing, preservation, quality control, storage, transportation, implantation, or disposal of a part. 2007, cc. 92, 907.
VA Code § 32.1-291.17 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 32.1 - Health|Chapter 8 - Postmortem Examinations and Services|§ 32.1-291.17. Falsification, etc of document of gift; penalty

A person that, in order to obtain a financial gain, intentionally falsifies, forges, conceals, defaces, or obliterates a document of gift, an amendment or revocation of a document of gift, or a refusal is guilty of a Class 4 felony. 2007, cc. 92, 907.