2016 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 44 - Health
CHAPTER 43 - DISPOSITIONS OF HUMAN BODIES AND PARTS; POST-MORTEM EXAMINATIONS
Section 44-43-530. Dead bodies available to board; notification of availability.

Each officer, agent, and servant of every city in the State and of every almshouse, prison, morgue, hospital, jail, or other public institution in cities having charge or control of any dead human body that is required to be buried at the public expense and every officer or other person having charge or control of the body of any person upon whom the sentence of death for crime has been executed under the law shall notify the board, or the person or persons as may, from time to time, be designated by the board or the board's authorized officer or agent, whenever and as soon as a body comes to the person's possession, charge, or control and shall, without fee or reward, deliver the body and permit the board and its agents, and physicians and surgeons as may, from time to time, be designated by the board, to take and remove the body to be used for the advancement of medical science.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 9-503; 1952 Code Section 9-503; 1942 Code Section 3445; 1932 Code Section 3445; Civ. C. '22 Section 1054; Civ. C. '12 Section 931; 1909 (26) 166; 2006 Act No. 334, Section 1, eff June 2, 2006.

Effect of Amendment

The 2006 amendment deleted the reference to giving bond and made nonsubstantive changes throughout.