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Tennessee Code > Title 68 > Health > Chapter 4 - Disposition of Dead Bodies
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§ 68-4-101
Notice of death occurring while receiving medical attention or in institution — Action taken upon expiration of eight hours — Penalty
§ 68-4-102
Disposition of unclaimed bodies of persons dying in charitable or penal institutions or to be buried at public expense
§ 68-4-103
Persons dying in publicly-supported institutions or to be buried at public expense — Notice to relatives — Notice to chief medical examiner — Removal of body — Embalming — Infectious or contagious cases
§ 68-4-104
Distribution of bodies among medical, dental and anthropologic institutions — Receiving institution to pay expense
§ 68-4-105
Bodies to be used only for promotion of science — Surrender to relative upon demand
§ 68-4-107
Penalty for violations of §§ 68-4-102 — 68-4-109
§ 68-4-108
Expenses to be borne by medical, dental and anthropologic institutions
§ 68-4-109
Immunity from civil suit
§ 68-4-110
Regulations governing disinterment
§ 68-4-111
Autopsy by consent of persons having custody of body
§ 68-4-112
Rigid containers not mandatory for remains of certain children
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