Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies
- ANATOMICAL DISSECTION
- 451.350 - “Committee” defined.
- 451.360 - Establishment and composition of Committee; election and terms of Chair and Secretary.
- 451.370 - Meetings, records, budget and reports of Committee.
- 451.380 - Compensation of members of Committee.
- 451.390 - Regulations of Committee.
- 451.400 - Notification of Committee or its designee concerning dead human body which is unclaimed or required to be buried at public expense; delivery of body as designated by Committee.
- 451.410 - Retention of bodies received by Committee; referral of excess or unfit bodies to board of county commissioners for burial or cremation.
- 451.420 - Committee to receive notice of death for unclaimed indigent person; limitations on delivery of bodies to Committee.
- 451.430 - Delivery of body by Committee to friend or other claimant; payment of expenses; military funeral required by veterans’ organization that claims body.
- 451.440 - Contract for delivery of body to Committee prohibited; Committee authorized to accept body left by will.
- 451.450 - Distribution of bodies among schools, teaching hospitals and other persons or entities; fees; penalty.
- 451.460 - Recipient of body received from Committee required to give bond; approval, amount and conditions of bond.
- ANATOMICAL GIFTS (UNIFORM ACT)
- 451.500 - Short title.
- 451.503 - Applicability of Act.
- 451.505 - Uniformity of application and construction.
- 451.510 - Definitions.
- 451.511 - Adult” defined.
- 451.512 - Agent” defined.
- 451.513 - “Anatomical gift” defined.
- 451.520 - “Decedent” defined.
- 451.522 - “Disinterested witness” defined.
- 451.523 - “Document of gift” defined.
- 451.525 - “Donor” defined.
- 451.526 - Donor registry” defined.
- 451.528 - “Driver’s license” defined.
- 451.5285 - Eye bank” defined.
- 451.529 - Guardian” defined.
- 451.530 - “Hospital” defined.
- 451.532 - “Identification card” defined.
- 451.533 - Know” defined.
- 451.5335 - Minor” defined.
- 451.534 - Organ procurement organization” defined.
- 451.5345 - Parent” defined.
- 451.535 - “Part” defined.
- 451.540 - “Person” defined.
- 451.545 - “Physician” defined.
- 451.547 - “Procurement organization” defined.
- 451.5475 - Prospective donor” defined.
- 451.548 - Reasonably available” defined.
- 451.5485 - Recipient” defined.
- 451.549 - Record” defined.
- 451.5493 - Refusal” defined.
- 451.5497 - Sign” defined.
- 451.550 - “State” defined.
- 451.553 - “Technician” defined.
- 451.5535 - Tissue” defined.
- 451.554 - Tissue bank” defined.
- 451.5545 - Transplant hospital” defined.
- 451.556 - Persons authorized to make anatomical gift before death of donor.
- 451.558 - Manner of making anatomical gift before death of donor.
- 451.559 - Amending or revoking anatomical gift before death of donor.
- 451.561 - Refusal to make anatomical gift; effect of refusal.
- 451.562 - Preclusive effect of anatomical gift, amendment or revocation.
- 451.566 - Persons authorized to make anatomical gift of body or part of decedent.
- 451.568 - Manner of making, amending or revoking anatomical gift of body or part of decedent.
- 451.571 - Persons who may receive anatomical gift; purpose of anatomical gift.
- 451.572 - Search and notification.
- 451.578 - Delivery of document of gift not required; right to examine.
- 451.579 - Rights and duties of procurement organization and others.
- 451.584 - Coordination of procurement and use.
- 451.590 - Sale or purchase of parts prohibited; penalties.
- 451.591 - Other prohibited acts; penalties.
- 451.592 - Immunity.
- 451.593 - Law governing validity; choice of law as to execution of document of gift; presumption of validity.
- 451.594 - Donor registry.
- 451.595 - Effect of anatomical gift on advance health-care directive.
- 451.596 - Cooperation between coroner and procurement organization.
- 451.597 - Facilitation of anatomical gift from decedent whose body is under jurisdiction of coroner.
- CREMATION
- 451.600 - Definitions.
- 451.605 - “Agent” defined.
- 451.610 - “Communicable disease” defined.
- 451.615 - “Container” defined.
- 451.620 - “Human remains” defined.
- 451.625 - “Operator” defined.
- 451.630 - “Urn” defined.
- 451.635 - Requirements for licensing.
- 451.640 - Adoption of regulations; injunctive relief.
- 451.645 - Authority of cemetery or funeral home; authority of operator to contract with or employ licensed funeral director.
- 451.650 - Authority to order cremation of human remains; execution of affidavit.
- 451.655 - Order of person for cremation and disposition of remains.
- 451.660 - Requirements for death certificate and written authorization; delegation of authority of authorized agent.
- 451.665 - Maintenance of records; identification of remains.
- 451.670 - Prohibition against requiring placement of remains in casket; construction and incineration of container.
- 451.675 - Holding of remains awaiting cremation.
- 451.680 - Procedure and space for cremation.
- 451.685 - Allowance of persons near remains awaiting cremation; simultaneous cremation of remains of more than one person.
- 451.690 - Delivery and transportation of cremated remains.
- 451.695 - Disposition of cremated remains: Responsibility; operator of crematory.
- 451.700 - Disposition of cremated remains: Restrictions on manner and location.
- 451.705 - Effect of execution of order for cremation; liability for article of value delivered with remains.
- 451.710 - Refusal to accept or cremate remains or to release cremated remains pending resolution of dispute.
- 451.715 - Unlawful acts; abatement of unlawful crematory as public nuisance.
- DEFINITIONS
- DETERMINATION OF DEATH (UNIFORM ACT)
- MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
- 451.010 - Dissection of dead human bodies: Limitations; penalty.
- 451.015 - Commercial use of aborted embryo or fetus prohibited; penalty.
- 451.020 - Burial or cremation within reasonable time after death; transportation and disposal of residue of cremated body.
- 451.023 - Responsibility of surviving spouse or parent for burial or cremation of deceased spouse or child.
- 451.024 - Authority to order burial of human remains; execution of affidavit.
- 451.025 - Reimbursement for burial expenses paid with public money.
- 451.030 - Removal of remains for sale or dissection; purchases; punishment.
- 451.040 - Seizure of remains for debt; interference with dead body; penalty.
- 451.045 - Permit for disinterment or removal of human remains within State.
- 451.050 - Permit for disinterment or removal of human remains out of State.
- 451.060 - Penalties for noncompliance of common carrier.
- 451.065 - Unlawful to require remains to be embalmed or otherwise prepared before disposition; exceptions; penalty.
- 451.067 - Designation of family cemetery; notification of Health Division of designation.
- REMOVAL OF HUMAN REMAINS BY CEMETERY AUTHORITY
- 451.069 - “Cemetery authority” defined.
- 451.070 - Authority to order disinterment and removal of human remains.
- 451.080 - Regulations governing manner of removal and reinterment; time for removal and reinterment.
- 451.110 - Notice of determination to remove human remains.
- 451.130 - Posting of copies of notice in cemetery.
- 451.140 - Mailing of copy of notice to owner of plot or heir of person interred.
- 451.150 - Notice to cemetery authority by friend or relative.
- 451.160 - Notice to cemetery authority by friend or relative: Contents.
- 451.170 - Notice to cemetery authority by friend or relative: Manner of delivery.
- 451.180 - Notice by cemetery authority; manner of service on friend or relative.
- 451.190 - Notice to cemetery authority by friend or relative: Effect.
- 451.260 - Removal of human remains.
- 451.270 - Manner of reinterment.
- 451.280 - Disposal of land by cemetery authority; authority to sell and encumber.
- 451.290 - Sale or encumbrance of land; confirmation by district court of sale by cemetery corporation or association.
- 451.300 - Petition for confirmation; notice of hearing.
- 451.310 - Confirmation of sale agreed upon before receipt of notice of determination that further maintenance of cemetery is not in accordance with health, safety, comfort or welfare of public.
- 451.320 - Declaration of removal by cemetery authority: Filing; acknowledgment; effect of subsequent conveyance.
- 451.330 - Removal of dedication; notice of hearing and proof.
- REMOVAL OF HUMAN REMAINS INTERRED IN RELIGIOUS CEMETERY