Encasement of bodies to be shipped.

194.010. A disinterred human body, dead of a disease or anycause, will be treated as infectious and dangerous to the publichealth, and shall not be offered to or accepted by any commoncarrier for transportation unless it is encased in an airtightmetal or metal-lined burial case, coffin, casket or box that isclosed and hermetically sealed.

(RSMo 1939 § 9788)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 9067; 1919 § 5823; 1909 § 6691