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.

History

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

Editor's Notes

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

Prior Codifications

1973 Ed., § 6-115.

1981 Ed., § 6-114.