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Tenn. Code Ann. § 68-4-101 Notice of death occurring while receiving medical attention or in institution — Action taken upon expiration of eight hours — Penalty
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(a) When any person dies in a doctor's office, or any clinic, hospital or state, county or city institution, it is unlawful for any doctor, nurse, attendant, orderly, janitor or bookkeeper, or anyone, to call an undertaker without first making an effort to contact a relative of t…
Tenn. Code Ann. § 68-4-102 Disposition of unclaimed bodies of persons dying in charitable or penal institutions or to be buried at public expense
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(a) In order to promote medical and surgical science, and to provide for the disposition of unclaimed bodies of persons who die in any charitable or penal institutions, or are delivered to a public official for the purpose of burial at public expense, the chief medical examiner a…
Tenn. Code Ann. § 68-4-103 Persons dying in publicly-supported institutions or to be buried at public expense — Notice to relatives — Notice to chief medical examiner — Removal of body — Embalming — Infectious or contagious cases
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(a) Whenever a person dies in any hospital, infirmary, mental health institute, poorhouse, penitentiary, house of correction, workhouse, jail, or other charitable or penal institution that is supported in whole or in part at public expense, or whenever a body is delivered to a pu…
Tenn. Code Ann. § 68-4-104 Distribution of bodies among medical, dental and anthropologic institutions — Receiving institution to pay expense
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(a) The chief medical examiner, upon receiving the bodies or notification of the availability of the bodies as provided in this chapter, shall distribute them among the medical, dental and anthropologic institutions of this state regularly chartered and in active operation as pre…
