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Title 18 : Health

Chapter 107 : Deaths, Burials, and Autopsies

• Subchapter 001: General Requirements
•    § 5200. Definitions

•    § 5201. Permits; removal of bodies; waiting period; investigation into circumstances of death

•    § 5202. Report of death; death certificate; duties of licensed health care professional

•    § 5202a. Correction, completion, or amendment of death certificate

•    § 5203. Repealed. 2017, No. 46, § 48, effective July 1, 2018.

•    § 5204. Repealed. 2017, No. 46, § 49, effective July 1, 2019.

•    § 5205. Death certificate when no attending physician and in other circumstances; autopsy

•    § 5206. Penalty for failure to submit report of death

•    § 5207. Certificate furnished family; burial-transit permit

•    § 5208. Repealed. 2025, No. 116 (Adj. Sess.), § 10, eff. July 1, 2026.

•    § 5209. Death out of State; burial permit

•    § 5210. Form of burial or removal permit

•    § 5211. Unauthorized burial or removal; penalty

•    § 5212. Permit to remove dead bodies

•    § 5212a. Removal; objections

•    § 5212b. Unmarked Burial Sites Special Fund; reporting of unmarked burial sites

•    § 5213. Removal; form and disposition of permit

•    § 5214. Duties of sexton; no burial or removal without permit

•    § 5215. Burial returns

•    § 5216. Penalty

•    § 5217. Removal of marked historic remains

•    § 5218. Determination of death

•    § 5219. Persons missing and presumed dead; issuance of presumptive death certificate

•    § 5220. Repealed. 2015, No. 23, § 152(2).

• Subchapter 002: Fetal Deaths
•    § 5221. Definition

•    § 5222. Reports

•    § 5223. Unidentified fetus

•    § 5224. Disposition of remains; permits

•    § 5225. Penalty

• Subchapter 003: Rights of Family Members, Other Interested Persons, Funeral Directors, and Operators of Disposition Facilities
•    § 5226. Definitions

•    § 5227. Right to disposition

•    § 5228. Forfeiture

•    § 5229. Cost of disposition

•    § 5230. Rights of funeral director or operator of a disposition facility

•    § 5231. Civil action

•    § 5232. Procedures generally

•    § 5233. Limited liability

•    § 5234. Organ Donation Special Fund

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