Determination of life

(225 ILCS 41/15-60)     (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028)     Sec. 15-60. Determination of life. Every funeral director licensee or funeral director and embalmer licensee under this Code before proceeding to prepare or embalm a human body to cremate or bury shall determine that life is extinct by ascertaining that:     (a) pulsation has entirely ceased in the radial or other arteries; and     (b) heart or respiratory sounds are not audible with the use of a stethoscope or with the ear applied directly over the heart. (Source: P.A. 96-863, eff. 3-1-10.)