O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 31-21-24 (2019)

Transportation of bodies

✓ 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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The board for distribution may employ a carrier or carriers for the conveyance of bodies described in Code Section 31-21-21, which bodies shall be well enclosed in suitable incasements and carefully deposited free from public observation. The carrier or carriers shall obtain receipts containing the deceased’s name or, if the person is unknown, a description for each body delivered, and shall deposit such receipts with the secretary of the above board, who shall record and preserve them.

History

Ga. L. 1887, p. 87, § 4; Civil Code 1895, § 1516; Civil Code 1910, § 1760; Code 1933, § 88-706; Code 1933,

§ 88-2706, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 22A Am. Jur. 2d, Dead Bodies, § 39.