Dissecting or possessing body for dissection except as prescribed by law is a felony (R. L., sec. 4,271).
Coroner to hold inquest, etc. (R. L, secs., 5,878, 5,879).
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Coroner to hold inquest, etc. (McCl. Am. Code, sec. 487).
To bury body decently at expense of county, if necessary, or deliver it to relatives (McCl. Am. Code, sec. 501).
Removal, etc., of dead body unlawfully, or aiding such removal or knowingly receiving body so removed, etc., is punishable (McCl. Am. Code, sec. 5,328).
Coroner, undertaker, superintendent of public asylum, hospital, poor-house, or penitentiary, may deliver body to medical college or physician for dissection, etc., unless relatives, etc., refuse or deceased desired to be buried (McCl. Am. Code, sec. 5,329).
Bodies of those executed, or dying in hospitals or prisons under sentence for crime, shall be delivered to medical college or association or any physician or surgeon for dissection, etc., unless relatives or friends do not consent, or body shall have been interred, or is not claimed by relatives, or deceased expressed a wish to be buried, and after such use the remains shall be interred (Gen. Stat., sec. 3,758).
State board of health shall issue permits for transportation of bodies beyond county where death occurred (Gen. Stat., sec. 6,030).