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2018 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 59. Professions and Occupations
§59-396.20. Suspicion of crime - Embalming body without permission unlawful.
Universal Citation: 59 OK Stat § 59-396.20 (2018)
It shall be unlawful to embalm a dead human body when any fact within the knowledge or brought to the attention of the embalmer is sufficient to arouse suspicion of crime in connection with the cause of death of the deceased, until permission of the Chief Medical Examiner has been first obtained.
Added by Laws 1941, p. 242, § 21, emerg. eff. May 20, 1941. Amended by Laws 2003, c. 57, § 20, emerg. eff. April 10, 2003.
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