2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 19a-408. (Formerly Sec. 19-532). Disposition of body after proceedings.
Sec. 19a-408. (Formerly Sec. 19-532). Disposition of body after proceedings.
After the termination of all proceedings for which the body is required by the Chief
Medical Examiner, the Deputy Chief Medical Examiner, an associate medical examiner
or an authorized assistant medical examiner, the body shall be delivered to a person or
persons entitled by law to receive the same; but, if there are no such persons who will
take charge of and dispose of the body, then to the proper authorities of the town in
which the body is lying, whose duty it shall be to dispose of it. Whenever the deceased
person has not left property sufficient to defray the expenses of disposition of the body,
the same shall be paid by such town.
History: P.A. 79-47 included deputy chief medical examiner and associate medical examiners; Sec. 19-532 transferred to Sec. 19a-408 in 1983.
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