Code of Virginia - Title 32.1 Health - Section 32.1-284 Cremations and burials at sea

§ 32.1-284. Cremations and burials at sea

No dead human body whose death occurred in Virginia shall be cremated or buried at sea, irrespective of the cause and manner of death, unless a medical examiner shall determine that there is no further need for medicolegal inquiry into the death and shall so certify upon a form supplied by the Chief Medical Examiner. For this service the medical examiner shall be entitled to a fee established by the Board, not to exceed the fee provided for in subsection D of § 32.1-283, to be paid by the applicant for the certificate.

(1979, c. 711.)

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