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2010 South Dakota Code
Title 7 - COUNTIES
Chapter 14 - Coroner
Section 7-14-3 - Surrender or burial of body viewed by coroner.
7-14-3. Surrender or burial of body viewed by coroner. The coroner shall cause the body of any deceased person which he is called upon to view to be delivered to the person entitled to receive it, if any there be; but if not, he shall cause it to be properly buried and the expense paid from any property found with the body.Source: SL 1874-5, ch 27, § 103; PolC 1877, ch 21, § 81; CL 1887, § 676; RPolC 1903, § 911; SL 1909, ch 278; RC 1919, § 5969; SDC 1939, § 12.1102.
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