Minnesota Session Laws - 1985, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1985 

                        CHAPTER 183-S.F.No. 331 
           An act relating to health; permitting the county 
          coroner to remove the pituitary gland from a body 
          under certain circumstances; proposing coding for new 
          law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 390. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  [390.36] [CORONER REMOVAL OF PITUITARY GLAND 
DURING AUTOPSY.] 
    A county coroner who performs an autopsy under sections 
390.11, 390.32, or any other general or local law relating to 
county coroners or medical examiners, may remove the pituitary 
gland from the body and give it to the national pituitary 
agency, or any other agency or organization, for research if the 
following conditions have been met: 
    (a) the removal would not alter a gift made under sections 
525.921 to 525.93; 
    (b) the coroner or medical examiner has no knowledge of any 
objection to the removal by the decedent or other person having 
the right to control the disposition of the body; and 
    (c) the coroner or medical examiner has followed generally 
accepted ethical guidelines and the removal would not violate 
the tenets of the deceased's religion. 
    Approved May 23, 1985