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2012 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 194 Death--Disposition of Dead Bodies
Section 194.010 Encasement of bodies to be shipped.
MO Rev Stat § 194.010 (2012) What's This?
Encasement of bodies to be shipped.
194.010. A disinterred human body, dead of a disease or any cause, will be treated as infectious and dangerous to the public health, and shall not be offered to or accepted by any common carrier for transportation unless it is encased in an airtight metal or metal-lined burial case, coffin, casket or box that is closed and hermetically sealed.
(RSMo 1939 9788)Prior revisions: 1929 9067; 1919 5823; 1909 6691
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