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2010 Georgia Code
TITLE 31 - HEALTH
CHAPTER 21 - DEAD BODIES
ARTICLE 3 - OFFENSES
§ 31-21-43 - Removal of dead body from grave for purposes of sale or dissection
O.C.G.A. 31-21-43 (2010)31-21-43. Removal of dead body from grave for purposes of sale or dissection
Any person who shall remove a dead human body from any grave or other place of interment or from any vault, tomb, sepulcher, or from any other place for the purpose of selling or dissecting the same and any person who shall receive or purchase any dead human body knowing it to have been so disinterred or removed for the purpose aforesaid shall be punished by imprisonment and labor in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than ten years.
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