After the termination of all proceedings for which the body is required by the Chief Medical Examiner, the Deputy Chief Medical Examiner, an associate medical examiner or an authorized assistant medical examiner, the body shall be delivered to a person or persons entitled by law to receive the same; but, if there are no such persons who will take charge of and dispose of the body, then to the proper authorities of the town in which the body is lying, whose duty it shall be to dispose of it. Whenever the deceased person has not left property sufficient to defray the expenses of disposition of the body, the same shall be paid by such town.
(1969, P.A. 699, S. 9; P.A. 79-47, S. 11.)
History: P.A. 79-47 included deputy chief medical examiner and associate medical examiners; Sec. 19-532 transferred to Sec. 19a-408 in 1983.
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