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2018 Georgia Code 31-21-1 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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TITLE 31 HEALTH

Section 21. Dead Bodies, 31-21-1 through 31-21-45.

ARTICLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS

31-21-1. Approved disinfectant; "embalming" defined.

  1. An approved disinfectant fluid shall contain not less than 5 percent formaldehyde gas.
  2. As used in this chapter, the term "embalming" means the injection by a licensed embalmer of not less than 10 percent of the weight for bodies of persons dead of communicable diseases, such as smallpox and diphtheria, injected arterially in addition to cavity injection and, in all other cases, not less than 6 percent of the body weight injected arterially in addition to cavity injection.

(Ga. L. 1916, p. 77, § 1; Code 1933, § 88-605; Code 1933, § 88-2713, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1.)

Cross references.

- Licenses for funeral directors and embalmers, § 43-18-40 et seq.

Law reviews.

- For article, "A Review of Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, The Court, and Buck v. Bell," see 26 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 1295, (2010).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

C.J.S.

- 25A C.J.S., Dead Bodies, § 2, 3.

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