Code of Virginia - Title 54.1 Professions And Occupations - Section 54.1-2818.1 Prerequisites for cremation

§ 54.1-2818.1. Prerequisites for cremation

No dead human body shall be cremated without (i) permission of the medical examiner as required by § 32.1-284 and either (ii) visual identification of the deceased by the next-of-kin or his representative, who may be any person designated to make arrangements for the decedent's burial or the disposition of his remains pursuant to § 54.1-2825 or an agent named in an advance directive pursuant to § 54.1-2984 or (iii) a twenty-four-hour waiting period between the time of death and the cremation.

(1998, c. 867.)

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