The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXIX
PUBLIC HEALTH

Chapter 406
MEDICAL EXAMINERS; DISPOSITION OF HUMAN REMAINS

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F.S. 406.55

406.55 Contracts for delivery of human remains after death prohibited.—The anatomical board may not enter into any contract, oral or written, that provides for any sum of money to be paid to any living person in exchange for the delivery of that person’s remains to the anatomical board when the person dies.

History.—s. 9, ch. 28163, 1953; ss. 15, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 5, ch. 96-251; s. 10, ch. 2013-138.

Note.—Former s. 245.10.

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Amendments to 406.55

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 406.55

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 406.55.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

UNITED STATES PARK L. DAVIS CO. v. MATTHEW CUMMINGS CO., 27 F. Supp. 405 (D. Mass. 1939)

. . . Providing Lower Chamber Plates under boilers ..................... 406.55 Item No. 3. . . .

Co. L., 20 Fla. 443 (Fla. 1884)

. . . that the defendant in the above entitled cause is indebted to the plaintiffs therein in the sum of $406.55 . . .