(a) If private funds are not available to pay funeral and burial costs and a request is made for those costs to an official of State or local government by an appropriate family member, executor, or agent empowered to direct the disposition of the decedent‘s remains, the official shall inform the appropriate family member, executor, or agent empowered to direct the disposition of the decedent’s remains of the option to donate the remains for use in the advancement of medical science subject to any written directive of a will or other written instrument identified in Section 65 of the Crematory Regulation Act or in subsection (a) of § 40 of the Disposition of Remains Act.
     (b) The appropriate family member, executor, or agent empowered to direct the disposition of the decedent’s remains is responsible for authorizing the use of such remains in accordance with the process of the specific qualified medical science institution.
     (c) If funds are not otherwise available for burial or the cadaver has not been claimed by a family member or other responsible person, the coroner with custody may donate the cadaver for medical science purposes pursuant to § 3-3034 of the Counties Code.