{"data":{"id":"us-co/c.r.s.-15-19-222","jurisdiction":"us-co","citation":"C.R.S. § 15-19-222","heading":"Cooperation between coroner and procurement organization.","body":"(a) A coroner shall cooperate with procurement organizations to maximize the opportunity to recover anatomical gifts for the purpose of transplantation or therapy.\n\n(b) Subject to section 15-19-223, if a coroner receives notice from a procurement organization that an anatomical gift might be available or was made with respect to a decedent whose body is under the jurisdiction of the coroner and a post-mortem examination is going to be performed, the coroner or designee shall make every reasonable effort to conduct a post-mortem examination of the body or the part in a manner and within a period compatible with its preservation for the purposes of the gift and the medicolegal death investigation.\n\n(c) A part may not be removed from the body of a decedent under the jurisdiction of a coroner for transplantation, therapy, research, or education unless the part is the subject of an anatomical gift. The body of a decedent under the jurisdiction of the coroner may not be delivered to a person for research or education unless the body is the subject of an anatomical gift. This subsection (c) does not preclude a coroner from performing the medicolegal investigation upon the body or parts of a decedent under the jurisdiction of the coroner.","path":["Title 15 - PROBATE, TRUSTS, AND FIDUCIARIES","Article 19 - Treatment of Human Bodies After Death","Part 2 - REVISED UNIFORM ANATOMICAL GIFT ACT"],"source_url":"https://olls.info/crs/crs2026-title-15.htm","current_through":"Colorado Revised Statutes 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:37:45Z","sha256":"c52bd4249bdcc4ad23cbdd444390f0331cb07a872dcb401dd41cc1c6704980d9","source_id":"us-co","stale":false,"prev":"us-co/c.r.s.-15-19-221","next":"us-co/c.r.s.-15-19-223"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}