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Chapter 68.50 RCW

HUMAN REMAINS

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HTMLPDF 68.50.010Coroner's jurisdiction over remains.
HTMLPDF 68.50.015Immunity for determining cause and manner of death—Judicial review of determination.
HTMLPDF 68.50.020Notice to coroner or medical examiner—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 68.50.032Transportation of remains directed by coroner or medical examiner—Costs.
HTMLPDF 68.50.035Unlawful to refuse burial to non-Caucasian.
HTMLPDF 68.50.040Deceased's effects to be listed.
HTMLPDF 68.50.050Removal or concealment of body—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 68.50.060Bodies for instruction purposes.
HTMLPDF 68.50.070Human remains—Disposition.
HTMLPDF 68.50.080Certificate and bond before receiving bodies.
HTMLPDF 68.50.090Penalty.
HTMLPDF 68.50.100Dissection, when permitted—Autopsy of person under the age of three years.
HTMLPDF 68.50.101Autopsy, postmortem—Who may authorize.
HTMLPDF 68.50.102Court petition for autopsy—Cost.
HTMLPDF 68.50.103Autopsies in industrial deaths.
HTMLPDF 68.50.104Cost of autopsy.
HTMLPDF 68.50.105Autopsies, postmortems—Reports and records confidential—Exceptions.
HTMLPDF 68.50.106Autopsies, postmortems—Analyses—Opinions—Evidence—Costs.
HTMLPDF 68.50.107State toxicological laboratory established—State toxicologist.
HTMLPDF 68.50.108Autopsies, postmortems—Consent to embalm, cremate body, or make final disposition—Time limitation.
HTMLPDF 68.50.110Burial, cremation, alkaline hydrolysis, or natural organic reduction.
HTMLPDF 68.50.115Coroner and medical examiner liability—Release of information.
HTMLPDF 68.50.120Holding body for debt—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 68.50.130Unlawful disposal of remains.
HTMLPDF 68.50.140Unlawful disturbance, removal, or sale of human remains—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 68.50.160Right to control disposition of remains—Liability of funeral establishment or cemetery authority—Liability for cost.
HTMLPDF 68.50.170Effect of authorization.
HTMLPDF 68.50.185Individual final disposition—Exception—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 68.50.200Permission to remove human remains.
HTMLPDF 68.50.210Notice for order to remove remains.
HTMLPDF 68.50.220Exceptions.
HTMLPDF 68.50.230Human remains that have not been disposed—Rules.
HTMLPDF 68.50.232Remains—Entrusting to funeral homes or mortuaries.
HTMLPDF 68.50.240Record of human remains to be kept.
HTMLPDF 68.50.270Possession of human remains.
HTMLPDF 68.50.290Corneal tissue for transplantation—Presumption of good faith.
HTMLPDF 68.50.300Release of information concerning a death.
HTMLPDF 68.50.310Dental identification system established—Powers and duties.
HTMLPDF 68.50.320Procedures for investigating missing persons—Availability of files.
HTMLPDF 68.50.325Indigenous persons—Identification of remains—Spiritual practices.
HTMLPDF 68.50.330Identification of body or human remains by dental examination—Comparison of dental examination records with dental records of dental identification system.
HTMLPDF 68.50.645Skeletal human remains—Duty to notify—Ground disturbing activities—Coroner determination—Definitions.
HTMLPDF 68.50.900Effective date—1987 c 331.
HTMLPDF 68.50.901Application—1993 c 228.
HTMLPDF 68.50.902Application—Construction—1993 c 228.
HTMLPDF 68.50.903Severability—1993 c 228.
HTMLPDF 68.50.904Short title—1993 c 228.

NOTES:

Burial-transit and disinterment permits—Final disposition of human remains: RCW 70.58A.210.
Coroners to submit blood samples to state toxicologist—Analysis—Utilization of reports: RCW 46.52.065.
County commissioners to dispose of remains of indigents: RCW 36.39.030.
Fetal deaths: Chapter 70.58A RCW.
Reports of death—Filing and registration requirements: RCW 70.58A.200.
Veterans and relatives: Chapter 73.24 RCW.