Maryland Code, HEALTH – GENERAL 5-512
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- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Person: includes an individual, receiver, trustee, guardian, personal representative, fiduciary, representative of any kind, corporation, partnership, business trust, statutory trust, limited liability company, firm, association, or other nongovernmental entity. See
- Personal representative: includes an administrator and an executor. See
- Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
(a) A practitioner or an operator of a crematory may not require an authorizing agent to obtain appointment as personal representative of the decedent‘s estate as a condition precedent to making final arrangements or authorizing cremation of a decedent.
(b) A person may not authorize cremation when a decedent has left instructions in a document that the decedent does not wish to be cremated.