Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-951
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Transporting of bodies for autopsy or scientific tests
Official statutory text
The Chief Medical Examiner shall maintain a contract transport
service authorized to transport bodies of deceased persons of whose
death he or she is officially informed to an appropriate place for
autopsy or for the performance of scientific tests; provided that,
after the autopsy shall have been performed or such tests made, the
bodies of such deceased persons shall be returned to the county from
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 63. Public Health and Safety Page 1301
which they were brought, or, when so authorized by the district
attorney of the county and upon request of the nearest relative of
the deceased or other person who may be responsible for burial, the
body may be transported to some place other than the county. The
Chief Medical Examiner or his or her designee may authorize payment
for the services in transporting the body to the place designated
for autopsy, which shall be submitted upon a claim filed with the
Board of Medicolegal Investigations.
service authorized to transport bodies of deceased persons of whose
death he or she is officially informed to an appropriate place for
autopsy or for the performance of scientific tests; provided that,
after the autopsy shall have been performed or such tests made, the
bodies of such deceased persons shall be returned to the county from
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 63. Public Health and Safety Page 1301
which they were brought, or, when so authorized by the district
attorney of the county and upon request of the nearest relative of
the deceased or other person who may be responsible for burial, the
body may be transported to some place other than the county. The
Chief Medical Examiner or his or her designee may authorize payment
for the services in transporting the body to the place designated
for autopsy, which shall be submitted upon a claim filed with the
Board of Medicolegal Investigations.
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