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2011 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 431 GENERAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
431.270 Delivery or burial of body.


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431.270 Delivery or burial of body. The body of the condemned shall be delivered to any friend or relative making request for it. The expense for the return of the body to its home, not to exceed thirty dollars (), shall be paid out of the appropriations to the Department of Corrections. If no request is made, the body shall be buried, and the cost of the burial, not to exceed thirty dollars (), shall be paid out of the appropriations to the Department of Corrections. Effective: July 14, 1992 History: Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 211, sec. 87, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 74, Art. V, sec. 2. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1137-6.

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