2013 Maryland Code
HEALTH - GENERAL
§ 5-512 - Authorizing agent as personal representative not required; documents negating cremation


MD Health-Gen Code § 5-512 (2013) What's This?

§5-512.

(a) A practitioner or an operator of a crematory may not require an authorizing agent to obtain appointment as personal representative of the decedent’s estate as a condition precedent to making final arrangements or authorizing cremation of a decedent.

(b) A person may not authorize cremation when a decedent has left instructions in a document that the decedent does not wish to be cremated.

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