CHAPTER 21 - DEAD BODIES
- ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
- § 31-21-1 - Approved disinfectant; "embalming" defined
- § 31-21-2 - Conflict with authority of Commissioner of Agriculture
- § 31-21-3 - Death of person with infectious or communicable disease; required reporting procedures; confidentiality; disclosure; penalties
- § 31-21-4 - Burial at sea of cremated remains; notification that cremated remains are ready for interment; unclaimed cremated remains
- § 31-21-5 - Incineration or cremation of dead body or parts thereof
- § 31-21-6 - Notification of law enforcement agency upon disturbance, destruction, or debasement of human remains
- § 31-21-7 - Preneed contracts and revisions; affidavit on disposition of remains; role of probate court; warrant as to truthfulness; liability of funeral home
- ARTICLE 2 - DISPOSITION OF UNCLAIMED DEAD BODIES
- § 31-21-20 - Board for the Distribution of Cadavers
- § 31-21-21 - Delivery to board of certain unclaimed bodies
- § 31-21-22 - Disposition of bodies of travelers dying suddenly
- § 31-21-23 - Distribution of bodies by board
- § 31-21-24 - Transportation of bodies
- § 31-21-25 - Bonds
- § 31-21-26 - Payment of expenses
- ARTICLE 3 - OFFENSES
- § 31-21-40 - Omission to perform duties imposed by chapter
- § 31-21-41 - Traffic in human bodies
- § 31-21-42 - Disinterment by coroner without good grounds
- § 31-21-43 - Removal of dead body from grave for purposes of sale or dissection
- § 31-21-44 - Wanton or malicious removal of dead body from grave or disturbance of contents of grave; receipt, retention, disposal, or possession of unlawfully removed dead body or bodily part
- § 31-21-44.1 - Abuse of dead body
- § 31-21-44.2 - Throwing away or abandonment of dead bodies prohibited; punishment
- § 31-21-45 - Public exhibit or display of dead human bodies of American Indians or American Indian human remains