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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 525 RIOT, DISORDERLY CONDUCT, AND RELATED OFFENSES
525.120 Abuse of corpse.
Download pdfsensibilities. A person shall also be guilty of abuse of a corpse if that person enters
into a contract and accepts remuneration for the preparation of a corpse for burial or
the burial or cremation of a corpse and then deliberately fails to prepare, bury, or
cremate that corpse in accordance with that contract. (2) Abuse of a corpse is a Class A misdemeanor, unless the act attempted or committed involved sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse with the corpse or the
deliberate failure to prepare, bury, or cremate a corpse after the acceptance of
remuneration in accordance with any contract negotiated, in which case it is a Class
D felony. Effective: July 15, 2002
History: Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 276, sec. 8, effective July 15, 2002. -- Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 490, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2000. -- Created 1974 Ky. Acts
ch. 406, sec. 222, effective January 1, 1975.
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