Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 31. HEALTH · Chapter 21. DEAD BODIES · Article 2. DISPOSITION OF UNCLAIMED DEAD BODIES

31-21-24. Transportation of bodies.

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The board may employ a carrier or carriers for the conveyance of bodies described in Code Section 31-21-21, which bodies shall be well enclosed in suitable incasements and carefully deposited free from public observation. The carrier or carriers shall obtain receipts containing the deceased’s name or, if the person is unknown, a description for each body delivered, and shall deposit such receipts with the secretary of the board, who shall record and preserve them.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1887, p. 87, § 4; Civil Code 1895, § 1516; Civil Code 1910, § 1760; Code 1933, § 88-706; Code 1933, § 88-2706, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Ga. L. 2025, p. 1029, § 31(59)/SB 153, effective July 1, 2025.

Amendments

The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, deleted “for distribution” following “The board” at the beginning of the first sentence and deleted “above” following “secretary of the” in the second sentence.

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