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Health Dead Bodies: Enable Regulation Relating To Identification, Handling, And Disposition Of Dead Bodies; Create The Offense Of Abandonment Of A Dead Body, 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, Tara Kinney, John Hamrick
Georgia State University Law Review
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.