# COMAR Title 10 — Maryland Department of Health

## Subtitle 35 — Office of the Chief Medical Examiner

### Chapter 01 — Medical Examiner Cases

#### Regulation .11 Tissue Recovery.

*COMAR 10.35.01.11*

Whenever an authorized organ and tissue procurement organization has informed the Chief Medical Examiner or the Chief Medical Examiner's deputy or assistant medical examiner that there is a need for tissue for research or transplantation, the Chief Medical Examiner shall allow the authorized organ and tissue procurement organization to make a recovery if:

A. Proper authorization has been provided to the medical examiner;

B. The body has been tested to determine its suitability for transplantation;

C. An autopsy is going to be performed and the removal does not interfere with the subsequent investigation or examination; and

D. The medical examiner does not know of an objection to the autopsy or donation of tissue by the next of kin.