HEALTH Dead Bodies: Enable Regulation Relating to Identification, Handling, and Disposition of Dead Bodies; Create the Offense of Abandonment of a Dead Body

Authors

Tara KinneyFollow
John HamrickFollow

Document Type

Peach Sheet

Abstract

The Act serves to regulate certain practices relating to identification, handling, and disposition of dead bodies. This Act further prohibits and punishes the throwing away or abandonment of dead bodies and provides for exceptions. The Act also provides for the retention of health records by providers for at least ten years.

Recommended Citation

Tara Kinney & John Hamrick, HEALTH Dead Bodies: Enable Regulation Relating to Identification, Handling, and Disposition of Dead Bodies; Create the Offense of Abandonment of a Dead Body, 19 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. (2002).
Available at: https://readingroom.law.gsu.edu/gsulr/vol19/iss1/38