If a patient dies in a hospital or a health care facility where invasive surgical procedures are performed, the person authorized to consent, as determined in accordance with Section 44-43-710, has the right to have an autopsy performed. The hospital or health care facility where invasive surgical procedures are performed, in writing, shall inform the person authorized to consent of this right. The notification must inform the person that if there is a charge for the autopsy the cost is to be paid by a private source.
HISTORY: 2010 Act No. 226, Section 2, eff July 1, 2010.
Editor's Note
2010 Act No. 226, Section 1, provides:
"This act may be cited as the 'Ann S. Perdue Independent Autopsy Fairness Act of 2010'."