Arkansas Code Title 20, Subtitle 2, Chapter 17, Subchapter 7 - Unclaimed Bodies

• § 20-17-701 - Rights of Coroner, Justice of the Peace, or Courts Unaffected.
  None of the provisions of this subchapter shall affect the right of a coroner or a justice of the peace to hold the dead...
• § 20-17-702 - Search for Next of Kin.
  (a) The person who assumes original and lawful possession, charge, or control of any body as described in this subchapter shall conduct a diligent...
• § 20-17-703 - Notice to Department of Anatomy of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
  (a) Any person in charge of a prison, morgue, hospital, funeral parlor, or mortuary, any person who is a public officer, agent, or employee...
• § 20-17-704 - Delivery to University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
  Upon expiration of the forty-eight (48) hours as provided in § 20-17-703, if the dead human body has not been claimed for burial, the...
• § 20-17-705 - Wishes of Deceased for Disposition Honored.
  (a) No unclaimed dead human body shall be surrendered to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences under this subchapter if there is proof...
• § 20-17-706 - Cost of Embalming and Transportation.
  (a) If the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences determines that there is a need for the body, that the body is suitable for...
• § 20-17-707 - Holding Period for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
  (a) The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences shall cause any body accepted under this subchapter to be retained in a proper state of...
• § 20-17-708 - Disposition After Use.
  (a) At any time when a body as described in this subchapter shall have been used and deemed of no further value to medical...
• § 20-17-709 - Records.
  The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences shall cause a complete record to be kept of all bodies received under this subchapter, and the...
• § 20-17-710 - Nonliability.
  No person shall be civilly liable for possessing, examining, dissecting, or handling in any lawful manner any cadaver under this subchapter.

Last modified: November 15, 2016