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2025 Delaware Code
Title 16 - Health and Safety
Chapter 27. ANATOMICAL GIFTS AND STUDIES
Subchapter I. Anatomical Studies
§ 2702. Duties of public officers.
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§ 2702. Duties of public officers.
Every public officer of this State or of any agency, county or political subdivision thereof, who shall have or receive custody or control of the body of any decedent, other than a dead body on which an autopsy has been performed pursuant to § 4707 of Title 29, and which body is not claimed within a reasonable time by a surviving spouse or relative of the decedent but not less than 120 hours following the death of the decedent, and which body will require burial at the expense of the State or of any agency, county or political subdivision thereof, shall forthwith notify the Medical Council of the existence and location of the dead body and of any identification thereof.
24 Del. C. 1953, § 1772; 54 Del. Laws, c. 281; 65 Del. Laws, c. 487, § 2;
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