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2023 Tennessee Code
Title 68 - HEALTH, SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (§§ 68-1-NEW — 68-221-1319)
HEALTH (§§ 68-1-NEW — 68-6-201)
Chapter 4 - DISPOSITION OF DEAD BODIES (§§ 68-4-101 — 68-4-113)
- Section 68-4-101 - Notice of death occurring while receiving medical attention or in institution - Action taken upon expiration of eight hours - Penalty
- Section 68-4-102 - Disposition of unclaimed bodies of persons dying in charitable or penal institutions or to be buried at public expense
- Section 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
- Section 68-4-104 - Distribution of bodies among medical, dental and anthropologic institutions - Receiving institution to pay expense
- Section 68-4-105 - Bodies to be used only for promotion of science - Surrender to relative upon demand
- Section 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
- Section 68-4-107 - Penalty for violations of Sections 68-4-102 - 68-4-109
- Section 68-4-108 - Expenses to be borne by medical, dental and anthropologic institutions
- Section 68-4-109 - Immunity from civil suit
- Section 68-4-110 - Regulations governing disinterment
- Section 68-4-111 - Autopsy by consent of persons having custody of body
- Section 68-4-112 - Rigid containers not mandatory for remains of certain children
- Section 68-4-113 - Cremation of unclaimed dead body
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