2025 Code of Georgia
Title 31 - Health (Chs. 1 — 54)
Chapter 21 - Dead Bodies (Arts. 1 — 3)
Annotations
Research References & Practice Aids
Cross references.Criminal penalty for concealing death of person, § 16-10-31.
Disposal of aborted fetuses, § 16-12-141.1.
Maintenance of vital records, § 31-10-1 et seq.
Death certificates, § 31-10-15.
Duty of county to pay for interment of deceased indigent persons, § 36-12-5.
Funeral directors, embalmers, and operators of funeral establishments, § 43-18-1 et seq.
Georgia Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, § 44-5-140 et seq.
Georgia Death Investigation Act, § 45-16-20 et seq.
Administrative rules and regulations.Georgia State Board of Funeral Service, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Rule 250-1-.01 et seq.
RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d.22A Am. Jur. 2d, Dead Bodies, §§ 1, 6, 7.
C.J.S.25A C. J. S., Dead Bodies, § 1 et seq.
ALR.Constitutionality of statute or ordinance requiring, or permitting, removal of bodies from cemeteries, 71 A. L. R. 1040.
Enforcement of preference expressed by decedent as to disposition of his body after death, 54 A. L. R.3d 1037.
Dead bodies: liability for improper manner of reinterment, 53 A. L. R.4th 394.
Hierarchy Notes:O. C. G. A. Title 31
