38:17-2.1 Identification of indigent deceased person; determination of veteran status.
2. The county medical examiner, or a designee, shall be responsible for the positive identification of an unidentified indigent deceased person. The supervisor of veterans' interment or county medical examiner, as appropriate, shall contact the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs upon receipt of an unclaimed indigent deceased person to ascertain whether or not that person was a veteran. The supervisor of veterans' interment or county medical examiner, as appropriate, shall be notified upon determination of the veteran status of the person. If the person was a veteran, the supervisor of veterans' interment or county medical examiner, as appropriate, shall cause burial or cremation to occur within 72 hours of notification of veteran status.
L.2013, c.238, s.2.