2005 Minnesota Statutes

     390.36 Coroner removal of pituitary gland during autopsy.

    A county coroner who performs an autopsy under section 
 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 525.9224; 

    (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. 

    HIST: 1985 c 183 s 1; 1991 c 202 s 17