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Statutes > Virginia > Title-32-1 > Chapter-8 > 32-1-284§ 32.1-284. Cremations and burials at sea.
No dead human body whose death occurred in Virginia shall be cremated orburied at sea, irrespective of the cause and manner of death, unless amedical examiner shall determine that there is no further need formedicolegal inquiry into the death and shall so certify upon a form suppliedby the Chief Medical Examiner. For this service the medical examiner shall beentitled to a fee established by the Board, not to exceed the fee providedfor in subsection D of § 32.1-283, to be paid by the applicant for thecertificate.
(1979, c. 711.)
