MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 41-39-37. Persons eligible to receive donations.

The following persons are eligible to receive gifts of human bodies or parts thereof for the purposes stated:

(1) Any licensed hospital, surgeon or physician, for medical education, research, advancement of medical science, therapy or transplantation to individuals.

(2) Any accredited medical school, college or university engaged in medical education or research, for therapy, educational research or medical science purposes.

(3) Any person operating a bank or storage facility for blood, arteries, eyes, pituitaries, or other human parts, for use in medical education, research, therapy or transplantation to individuals.

(4) Any specified donee, for therapy or transplantation needed by him.

(5) Any accredited school of mortuary science.

SOURCES: Codes, 1942, Sec. 278.3-03; Laws, 1970, ch. 413, Sec. 3; 1980, ch. 403, Sec. 3, eff from and after July 1, 1980.


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