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2013 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 24 - Health and Safety
Article 13 - Burial of Indigents
Section 24-13-4 - Burial after investigation; cost of opening and closing grave. (1999)


NM Stat § 24-13-4 (2013) What's This?

24-13-4. Burial after investigation; cost of opening and closing grave. (1999) 
The board of county commissioners after proper investigation shall cause any deceased indigent or unclaimed decedent to be decently interred or cremated. The cost to be paid by the county of opening and closing a grave shall not exceed six hundred dollars ($600), which sum shall be in addition to the sums enumerated in Section 24-13-3 NMSA 1978.   
  History: Laws 1939, ch. 224, § 4; 1941 Comp., § 73-207; 1953 Comp., § 13-2-7; Laws 1957, ch. 123, § 2; 1997, ch. 116, § 1; 1999, ch. 241, § 7. 

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