Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

31-21-26. Payment of expenses.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

Neither the state, county, municipality, nor officers thereof shall be placed at any expense by reason of delivery or distribution of bodies; but all expenses thereof shall be borne by those receiving the body or bodies as prescribed by the board.

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, § 8; Civil Code 1895, § 1518; Civil Code 1910, § 1762; Code 1933, § 88-708; Code 1933, § 88-2708, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Ga. L. 2025, p. 1029, § 31(60)/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 end of this Code section.

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