{"data":{"id":"us-nh/rsa-291-a-21","jurisdiction":"us-nh","citation":"RSA 291-A:21","heading":"Cooperation Between Medical Examiner and Procurement Organization.","body":"I. The chief medical examiner shall cooperate with procurement organizations to maximize the opportunity to recover anatomical gifts for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education.\nII. If a medical examiner 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 medical examiner and a post-mortem examination is going to be performed, unless the medical examiner denies recovery in accordance with RSA 291-A:22, the medical examiner or designee shall 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.\nIII. A part may not be removed from the body of a decedent under the jurisdiction of a medical examiner 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 medical examiner may not be delivered to a person for research or education unless the body is the subject of an anatomical gift. This paragraph does not preclude a medical examiner from performing the medicolegal investigation upon the body or parts of a decedent under the jurisdiction of the medical examiner.","path":["Title XXVI: CEMETERIES; BURIALS; DEAD BODIES","Chapter 291-A: UNIFORM ANATOMICAL GIFT ACT"],"source_url":"https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXVI/291-A/291-A-21.htm","current_through":"2025 regular legislative session, or December 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T14:49:21Z","sha256":"9994fccf46ab644b05c59927a4cfd2e58fcf22f0e6c56c6503fdd5ef023da887","source_id":"us-nh","stale":false,"prev":"us-nh/rsa-291-a-20","next":"us-nh/rsa-291-a-22"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}