Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-951: Transporting of bodies for autopsy or scientific tests

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

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.