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2018 Tennessee Code
Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection
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Chapter 4 - Disposition of Dead Bodies
- § 68-4-101. Notice of death occurring while receiving medical attention or in institution -- Action taken upon expiration of eight hours -- Penalty.
- § 68-4-102. Disposition of unclaimed bodies of persons dying in charitable or penal institutions or to be buried at public expense.
- § 68-4-103. Persons dying in publicly-supported institutions or to be buried at public expense -- Notice to relatives -- Notice to chief medical examiner -- Removal of body -- Embalming -- Infectious or contagious cases.
- § 68-4-104. Distribution of bodies among medical, dental and anthropologic institutions -- Receiving institution to pay expense.
- § 68-4-105. Bodies to be used only for promotion of science -- Surrender to relative upon demand.
- § 68-4-106. Resolution of conflict regarding the person authorized to direct disposition of remains in the event of death when military personnel in a duty status.
- § 68-4-107. Penalty for violations of ยงยง 68-4-102 -- 68-4-109.
- § 68-4-108. Expenses to be borne by medical, dental and anthropologic institutions.
- § 68-4-109. Immunity from civil suit.
- § 68-4-110. Regulations governing disinterment.
- § 68-4-111. Autopsy by consent of persons having custody of body.
- § 68-4-112. Rigid containers not mandatory for remains of certain children.
- § 68-4-113. Cremation of unclaimed dead body.
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