Title 31 — Title 31
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O.C.G.A. § 31-21-1 Approved disinfectant; ‘‘embalming’’ defined
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(a) An approved disinfectant fluid shall contain not less than 5 percent formaldehyde gas. (b) As used in this chapter, the term ‘‘embalming’’ means the injection by a licensed embalmer of not less than 10 percent of the weight for bodies of persons dead of communicable diseases,…
O.C.G.A. § 31-21-2 Conflict with authority of Commissioner of Agriculture
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Nothing in this article shall repeal or be construed to conflict with any power and authority now vested in the Commissioner of Agriculture by the laws of this state. History. — Code 1933, § 88-2714, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1. 792 31-21-3 31-21-3. Death of person with i…
O.C.G.A. § 31-21-20 Board for the Distribution of Cadavers
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The academic deans of medical, osteopathic medical, and dental colleges or a representative appointed by the president of such schools incorporated under the laws of this state or otherwise operating in this state with authorization from the Nonpublic Postsecondary Education Comm…
O.C.G.A. § 31-21-21 Delivery to board of certain unclaimed bodies
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(a) All public officers of this state and their assistants and all officers and their deputies of every county, city, town, or other municipality and of every prison, county correctional institution, morgue, public hospital, health care facility, except the Central State Hospital…
O.C.G.A. § 31-21-22 Approved disinfectant; ‘‘embalming’’ defined
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Conflict with authority of Commissioner of Agriculture. Death of person with infectious or communicable disease; required reporting procedures; confidentiality; disclosure; penalties. Burial at sea of cremated remains; notification that cremated remains are ready for interment; u…
O.C.G.A. § 31-21-23 Distribution of bodies by board
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The board for distribution or its duly authorized agent may distribute bodies received pursuant to Code Section 31-21-21 to and among the schools or colleges described in Code Section 31-21-20 for lectures and demonstrations by such schools or colleges. The number assigned to eac…
O.C.G.A. § 31-21-24 Transportation of bodies
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The board for distribution may employ a carrier or carriers for the conveyance of bodies described in Code Section 31-21-21, which bodies shall be well enclosed in suitable incasements and carefully deposited free from public observation. The carrier or carriers shall obtain rece…
O.C.G.A. § 31-21-25 Bonds
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No school or college shall be allowed or permitted to receive any body or bodies described in Code Section 31-21-21 until a bond shall have been given to the Department of Community Health by or in behalf of the school or college by its authorized officers, to be approved by the …
O.C.G.A. § 31-21-26 Payment of expenses
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Neither the state, county, municipality, nor officers thereof shall be placed at any expense by reason of delivery or distribution of bodies; but all expenses thereof shall be borne by those receiving the body or bodies as prescribed by the board for distribution. 806 History. — …
O.C.G.A. § 31-21-40 Omission to perform duties imposed by chapter
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Any person having duties imposed upon him by Code Sections 31-21-20 through 31-21-24 who shall refuse or omit to perform such duties shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. History. — Ga. L. 1887, p. 87, § 9; Penal Code 1895, § 416; Penal Code 1910, § 409; Code 1933, § 88-9920; Code 19…
O.C.G.A. § 31-21-41 Traffic in human bodies
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Any person who shall sell or buy any dead human body or bodies or in any way traffic therein or transmit or convey, or procure the transmission or conveyance of any dead human body or bodies to any place outside of this state for purposes of sale or dissection, shall be punished …
O.C.G.A. § 31-21-42 Disinterment by coroner without good grounds
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If any person makes affidavit to facts to authorize the coroner to disinter a body or the coroner does so of his own motion and such affidavit is made or disinterment carried out without good grounds or from malice or mischief, the person so swearing or the coroner so officiating…
O.C.G.A. § 31-21-44.1 Abuse of dead body
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(a)(1) A person commits the offense of abuse of a dead body if, prior to interment and except as otherwise authorized by law, such person 810 31-21-44.1 DEAD BODIES 31-21-44.2 willfully defaces a dead body while the dead body is lying in state or is prepared for burial, showing, …