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Health and Safety Code § 7204

CHAPTER 4. Disposal of Unclaimed Dead

Current as of September 28, 2026Health & Saf. Code, § 7204Official source ↗

Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.

All persons receiving unclaimed dead for educational purposes shall bear all reasonable expense incurred in the preservation and transportation of the dead and shall keep a permanent record of bodies received, giving the identification number, the name, age, sex, nationality, and race, if possible, together with the place of last residence of the decedent and the source and disposition, with dates, of the body.