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title: Title 31, Chapter 21. Dead Bodies
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id: code:chapter:31-21
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date: 2025
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heading: DEAD BODIES
title_heading: HEALTH
section_count: 22
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# Title 31, Chapter 21. Dead Bodies

Title 31. Health

22 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-21.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue).

- 31-21-1, Approved disinfectant; embalming, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-21-1.md
- 31-21-2, Conflict with authority of Commissioner of Agriculture, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-21-2.md
- 31-21-3, Death of person with infectious or communicable disease; reporting requirements; confidentiality; penalty, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-21-3.md
- 31-21-4, Cremated or organically reduced remains; burial at sea; notification; disposition of remains, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-21-4.md
- 31-21-5, Incineration or cremation of dead body or parts thereof, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-21-5.md
- 31-21-6, Notification of law enforcement agency upon disturbance, destruction, or debasement of human remains, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-21-6.md
- 31-21-7, Right of disposition of remains; preneed contracts; funeral home liability, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-21-7.md
- 31-21-20, Board for the Distribution of Cadavers, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-21-20.md
- 31-21-21, Delivery to board of certain unclaimed bodies, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-21-21.md
- 31-21-22, Disposition of bodies of travelers dying suddenly, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-21-22.md
- 31-21-23, Distribution of bodies by board, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-21-23.md
- 31-21-24, Transportation of bodies, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-21-24.md
- 31-21-25, Bond requirement, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-21-25.md
- 31-21-26, Payment of expenses, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-21-26.md
- 31-21-40, Penalty, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-21-40.md
- 31-21-41, Trafficking in human bodies, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-21-41.md
- 31-21-42, Disinterment by coroner without good grounds, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-21-42.md
- 31-21-43, Removal of interred dead human body for purposes of sale or dissection, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-21-43.md
- 31-21-44, Unlawful removal, disturbance, receipt, retention, disposal, or possession of unlawfully removed dead human body or bodily parts, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-21-44.md
- 31-21-44.1, Abuse of a dead body, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-21-44.1.md
- 31-21-44.2, Abandonment of a dead body, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-21-44.2.md
- 31-21-45, Public exhibit or display of dead human bodies of American Indians or American Indian human remains, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-21-45.md