§ 17-29-701 - Authority.

17-29-701. Authority.

A funeral director or embalmer licensed pursuant to 17-29-301 et seq. who has completed a course in eye enucleation and has received a certificate of competence from the Department of Ophthalmology of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences' College of Medicine may enucleate the eyes of a deceased person pursuant to a disposition or gift thereof by the decedent or another person in the manner prescribed in the Revised Arkansas Anatomical Gift Act, 20-17-1201 et seq., after proper certification of death by a physician.