California Health and Safety Code

§ 7207

HSC § 7207Div. 7 · Part 1 · Ch. 4

Statute text

Whenever, through the failure of any person to notify the State department, or promptly to deliver the body of a deceased indigent as required by the State department, such body becomes unfit for scientific or educational purposes, the State department shall so certify and the remains shall be interred at the expense of those guilty of such noncompliance.

Legislative history

Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.