2020 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 12 - Professions And Occupations
Article 135. Mortuaries and Crematories
Section 12-135-106. Care of bodies required - public health.

A funeral establishment shall embalm, refrigerate, cremate, bury, or entomb human remains within twenty-four hours after taking custody of the remains.

Source: L. 2019: Entire title R&RE with relocations, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 944, § 1, effective October 1.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-54-105 as it existed prior to 2019.

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