O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 31-21-1 (2019)

Approved disinfectant; ‘‘embalming’’ defined

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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(a) An approved disinfectant fluid shall contain not less than 5 percent formaldehyde gas.

(b) 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.

History

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

Annotations

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 et seq., 8 et seq., 12, 16, 40, 43, 46 56, 61, 65.