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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 311 PHYSICIANS, OSTEOPATHS, PODIATRISTS, AND RELATED MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS
311.330 Relatives or friends of deceased to be notified -- Time within which body may not be used.

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311.330 Relatives or friends of deceased to be notified -- Time within which body may not be used. Any superintendent, warden, coroner or other person having in his possession an <br>unclaimed human body, shall notify any known relatives or friends of the deceased <br>person of the death and place where the body is. If no such friend or relative claims and <br>buries the body within three (3) days, the person shall deliver the body to the professor of <br>a college or school entitled to it under this chapter who demands it. Such professor shall <br>at once embalm the body and preserve it for thirty (30) days before dissecting it. During <br>the thirty (30) days the college or professor thereof, shall deliver the body, without <br>charge, to any friend or relative of the deceased who demands it for interment. If it is not <br>claimed during the thirty (30) days the professor and students may examine and dissect it. Effective: October 1, 1942 <br>History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 2645, 2646.

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