Reception, burial, and identification of ashes of certain cremated indigent persons

1. Law
2. District of Columbia Code
3. Human Health Care and Safety
4. Public Health
5. General Provisions
6. Reception, burial, and identification of ashes of certain cremated indigent persons

The Director of the Department of Human Services is authorized to provide and furnish proper containers for the reception, burial, and identification of the ashes of all human bodies of indigent persons that are cremated at the public crematorium, which ashes remain unclaimed after 12 months from date of such cremation.

(May 21, 1928, 45 Stat. 669, ch. 659; July 3, 1930, 46 Stat. 975, ch. 848; Aug. 1, 1950, 64 Stat. 393, ch. 513, § 1.)

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 6-114.

1973 Ed., § 6-115.

Editor's Notes

Office of Director of Public Health abolished: See Historical and Statutory Notes following § 7-101.

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