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65-901. Certain unclaimed dead bodies; use for medical, surgical and anatomical science. It shall be lawful for the chairman or head of the department of anatomy of the medical school of the university of Kansas, to claim and receive the dead body of any person required to be delivered under K.S.A. 65-902a, which would otherwise be buried at public expense or on grounds reserved exclusively for pauper dead; such body to be used within the state for the purpose of the advancement of medical, surgical and anatomical science and study, and the instruction of medical students.

History: L. 1897, ch. 158, § 1; R.S. 1923, 65-901; L. 1951, ch. 359, § 2; June 30.

Source or Prior Law:

L. 1861, ch. 77, § 1; G.S. 1868, ch. 63, § 1.

Cross References to Related Sections:

Fetal organs or tissue, sale or transportation of, see 65-67a01 et seq.

Law Review and Bar Journal References:

"Kansas and the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act," Glee S. Smith, Jr., and Glee S. Smith III, 19 K.L.R. 569, 570 (1971).

CASE ANNOTATIONS

1. Cited; petition sufficient in damage action for unauthorized autopsy. Alderman v. Ford, 146 Kan. 698, 700, 72 P.2d 981.


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