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Title 18: Health

Chapter 107: DEATHS, BURIALS, AUTOPSIES

• Subchapter 001: GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
•    § 5200. Definitions

  [Effective January 1, 2023.]

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

  [Effective until January 1, 2023.]

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

  [Effective January 1, 2023.]

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

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

•    § 5203. Repealed. 2019, No. 46, § 48, effective July 1, 2019.

•    § 5204. Repealed. 2017, No. 46, § 63, effective July 1, 2019.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

  [Effective January 1, 2023.]

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

  [Effective until January 1, 2023.]

•    § 5208. Department of health; report on statistics

•    § 5209. Death out of State; burial permit

•    § 5210. Form of burial or removal permit

  [Effective January 1, 2023.]

•    § 5210. Form of burial or removal permit

  [Effective until January 1, 2023.]

•    § 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

  [Effective January 1, 2023.]

•    § 5213. Removal; form and disposition of permit

  [Effective until January 1, 2023.]

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 Repealed. 2015, No. 23, § 152(2).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

•    § 5222. Reports

•    § 5223. Unidentified fetus

•    § 5224. Disposition of remains; permits

  [Effective January 1, 2023.]

•    § 5224. Disposition of remains; permits

  [Effective until January 1, 2023.]

•    § 5225. Penalty

• Subchapter 003: RIGHTS OF FAMILY MEMBERS, OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS, FUNERAL DIRECTORS, AND OPERATORS OF DISPOSITION FACILITIES [EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2023]
•    § 5226. Definitions

•    § 5226. Definitions

•    § 5227. Right to disposition

•    § 5227. Right to disposition

•    § 5228. Forfeiture

•    § 5228. Forfeiture

•    § 5229. Cost of disposition

  [Effective January 1, 2023.]

•    § 5229. Cost of disposition

  [Effective until January 1, 2023.]

•    § 5230. Rights of funeral director or crematory operator

  [Effective until January 1, 2023.]

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

  [Effective January 1, 2023.]

•    § 5231. Civil action

  [Effective January 1, 2023.]

•    § 5231. Civil action

  [Effective until January 1, 2023.]

•    § 5232. Procedures generally

•    § 5232. Procedures generally

•    § 5233. Limited liability

  [Effective January 1, 2023.]

•    § 5233. Limited liability

  [Effective until January 1, 2023.]

•    § 5234. Organ Donation Special Fund

•    § 5234. Organ Donation Special Fund

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