2006 Code of Virginia § 54.1-2818.1 - Prerequisites for cremation
54.1-2818.1. Prerequisites for cremation.
No dead human body shall be cremated without (i) permission of the medicalexaminer as required by 32.1-284 and either (ii) visual identification ofthe deceased by the next-of-kin or his representative, who may be any persondesignated to make arrangements for the decedent's burial or the dispositionof his remains pursuant to 54.1-2825 or an agent named in an advancedirective pursuant to 54.1-2984 or (iii) a twenty-four-hour waiting periodbetween the time of death and the cremation.
(1998, c. 867.)
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