New Hampshire Revised Statutes 165:3 – Burial or Cremation
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I. If an assisted person shall die in any town or city the overseers of public welfare shall cause such person to be decently buried or cremated at the expense of the town or city.
II. Notwithstanding any provision of paragraph I to the contrary, if an assisted person dies in a county nursing home, the overseers of public welfare shall cause such person to be decently buried or cremated at the expense of the town or city in which the assisted person was a resident, as that term is defined in N.H. Rev. Stat. § 21:6, on the date on which the assisted person entered the county nursing home.
II. Notwithstanding any provision of paragraph I to the contrary, if an assisted person dies in a county nursing home, the overseers of public welfare shall cause such person to be decently buried or cremated at the expense of the town or city in which the assisted person was a resident, as that term is defined in N.H. Rev. Stat. § 21:6, on the date on which the assisted person entered the county nursing home.
Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 165:3
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9