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Missouri Laws > Title XII > Chapter 194 - Death--Disposition of Dead Bodies

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§ 194.005	Death, legal definition
§ 194.010	Encasement of bodies to be shipped
§ 194.020	Hermetically sealed coffin, specifications
§ 194.060	Transportation of dead body by common carrier, requirements
§ 194.070	Preparation of certain bodies for shipment supervised by health officer
§ 194.080	Preparation of certain dead bodies for shipment
§ 194.090	Preparation necessary for bodies of persons who died of certain communicable diseases
§ 194.100	Transportation of bodies where cause of death is noncontagious
§ 194.105	Disinterment for transport to location outside original cemetery--notice, to whom, contents
§ 194.110	Penalty for violation
§ 194.115	Autopsy--consent required--penalty for violation--availability of report, to whom
§ 194.117	Sudden infant death--notification--autopsy by certified child death pathologist required, procedure, release to parents or guardian--cost, how paid--department of health and senior services duties--rules and regulations
§ 194.119	Right of sepulcher, the right to choose and control final disposition of a dead human body
§ 194.120	Missouri state anatomical board--members--responsibilities
§ 194.130	Meetings of board--organization--funds
§ 194.140	Acceptance of provisions of this law--bond--prohibited actions and penalties
§ 194.150	Disposal of paupers' bodies
§ 194.160	Distribution of bodies
§ 194.170	Autopsy not to be held, when
§ 194.180	Penalty for violation
§ 194.197	Depth at which body is buried may be regulated
§ 194.200	Disposition of a stillborn child, definitions, duties of hospital, duties of parents, collection of costs, penalties
§ 194.210	Definitions
§ 194.215	Applicability of law
§ 194.220	Registry to be established--gift may be made by whom
§ 194.225	Procedure for making a gift--donor cards, requirements--gift made by will, effect of
§ 194.230	Amendment or revocation, procedure
§ 194.235	Refusal to make a gift, evidenced how, requirements
§ 194.240	Person other than donor barred from making, amending, or revoking donor's gift--revocation not a bar to making a gift--parent may revoke or amend a gift of a child
§ 194.245	Gift for transplantation, therapy, research, or education, priority list for persons making
§ 194.250	Document of gift, procedure
§ 194.255	Persons eligible to receive gift in the document of gift--gifts not naming persons, effect of--refusal of gift required when
§ 194.260	Reasonable search to identify donors--immunity from liability, when
§ 194.263	Delivery of document of gift not required--examination and copying of document permitted, when
§ 194.265	Referral to procurement organization, diligent search of donor registry required--reasonable examination of body parts permitted, when--search for minor's parents required, when--attending physician shall not procure, when
§ 194.270	Hospitals to enter into agreements with procurement organizations
§ 194.275	Purchase or sale of body parts for valuable consideration prohibited--penalty--definition
§ 194.280	Falsification of documents, penalty
§ 194.285	Immunity from liability, when
§ 194.290	Declarations and advance health care directives--definitions--gift in conflict with, donor or physician to resolve
§ 194.292	Requirements for valid execution of a document of gift--presumption of validity, when--requirements for out-of-state execution of documents
§ 194.293	Uniformity of law a consideration in construing statutory provisions
§ 194.294	Effect of law on certain federal acts
§ 194.295	Embalmers authorized to enucleate eyes, when
§ 194.297	Organ donor program fund established--funding, administration, purpose--transfer to general revenue prohibited
§ 194.299	Money in organ donor program fund, how expended
§ 194.300	Organ donation advisory committee established in department of health and senior services, appointment, qualifications, expenses, terms
§ 194.302	Advisory committee's powers and duties--annual report, due when
§ 194.304	Transfer of donor registry information, department of revenue to cooperate--registry requirements
§ 194.307	Effective date for sections 194.240, 194.297 through 194.304 and section 302.171
§ 194.350	Disposition of cremated remains--if no directions are given, procedure, notice
§ 194.360	Veterans, cremated remains--definitions--funeral establishment not liable for negligence, when, notice required
§ 194.375	Citation of law--definitions
§ 194.378	Final disposition of fetal remains, mother has right to determine
§ 194.381	Means of disposition
§ 194.384	Written standards required for protection of mother's right to determine final disposition
§ 194.387	Miscarriage--mother's right to determine final disposition of remains--counseling made available, when
§ 194.390	Right to legal abortion not affected
§ 194.400	Definitions
§ 194.405	Scope of law
§ 194.406	Unmarked human burials, knowledge or discovery--notice to local law enforcement officer or state historic preservation officer--jurisdiction, how determined
§ 194.407	State historic preservation officer, jurisdiction of unmarked human burials, duties--general archaeological investigation, when--professional archaeologist, advise state historic preservation officer, when
§ 194.408	State historic preservation officer, reinterment, duties--consultation with unmarked human burial consultation committee, when
§ 194.409	Unmarked human burial consultation committee, established--seven members, qualifications--state historic preservation officer, chairman--meetings, when--members serve without remuneration--expenses--federal law
§ 194.410	Human burial sites--knowingly disturb, penalty--appropriation for sale, penalty
§ 194.425	Abandonment of a corpse without notifying authorities, penalty
§ 194.500	Definitions
§ 194.503	Right-of-way--use of lead vehicles--emergency vehicles with right-of-way, when
§ 194.506	Following distance--flashing emergency lights used, when--toll-free passage, when
§ 194.509	Regulations for nonparticipating vehicle operators--violations, penalty
§ 194.512	Use of amber lights for motorcycles--ordinances permitted

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