2016 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 44 - Health
CHAPTER 43 - DISPOSITIONS OF HUMAN BODIES AND PARTS; POST-MORTEM EXAMINATIONS
Section 44-43-560. Conveyance of bodies.
The board may employ a carrier or carriers for conveyance of bodies, which must be well enclosed in a suitable case and carefully deposited, free from public observation. Every carrier shall obtain a receipt by name or, if the person be unknown, by a description for each body delivered by the carrier and deposit the receipt with the board or its authorized agent. After the bodies have been sufficiently used for the purposes of instruction, the bodies must be decently and respectfully disposed of by the university, college, physicians, or surgeons, as the case may be, receiving them.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 9-506; 1952 Code Section 9-506; 1942 Code Section 3447; 1932 Code Section 3447; Civ. C. '22 Section 1056; Civ. C. '12 Section 933; 1909 (26) 166; 2006 Act No. 334, Section 1, eff June 2, 2006.
Effect of Amendment
The 2006 amendment, at the end of the first sentence, substituted "board or its authorized agent" for "secretary of the board"; in the second sentence, substituted "the bodies must be decently and respectfully disposed of" for "they shall be decently interred"; and made nonsubstantive changes throughout.
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