2018 Tennessee Code
Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades
Chapter 5 - Funeral Directors and Embalmers
Part 7 - Disposition of Human Remains
§ 62-5-702. Disposition of human remains and arrangements for funeral goods and services -- Cancellation or revision of disposition directions or pre-need funeral contract.
(a) A qualified adult, by entering into disposition directions or a pre-need funeral contract executed pursuant to part 4 of this chapter, may direct the location, manner and conditions of disposition of the adult's remains, and the arrangements for funeral goods and services to be provided upon the adult's death.
(b) No disposition directions or pre-need funeral contract shall be subject to cancellation or substantial revision unless the cancellation or substantial revision has been ordered by a person authorized to act as the lawful representative in § 62-5-703, or the pre-need funeral contract as the person authorized to cancel or revise the terms of the disposition directions or the pre-need funeral contract, or unless any resources set aside or available to fund the disposition directions or the pre-need funeral contract are insufficient to carry out the funeral and disposition arrangements set forth in the disposition directions or pre-need funeral contract.
