Dead bodies (Law)
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1, 4, and 9, of chapter 197, and section 14 of chapter 180 of the Code of 1873, in reference to Coroners’ Juries and the Pay thereof, and of Coroners. |
| An ACT to incorporate the Silver Star Society of Sussex county. |
| An ACT to promote Medicial Science, and to protect Graves and Cemeteries from desecration within the commonweulth of Virginia. |
| An ACT regulating the transportation of bodies dead of contagious or infectious diseases. |
| An ACT to amend section 1414 code of Virginia 1887, in relation to cemeteries in Henrico county, and giving the town of Barton Heights the authority to regulate by proper ordinances the burial of dead bodies in the cemeteries adjoining the town of Barton Heights and known as plat Cedarwood, Union Mechanics’, Methodist, Ebenezer, and Sycamore cemeteries. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 2, 6, 10, and 14 of an act approved March 5, 1894, entitled an act to establish a State board of embalming; to provide for the better protection of life and health; to prevent the spread of contagious diseases; to regulate the practice of embalming, and the care and disposition of the dead; and to add additional section 15 thereto |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1781 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to confer on the town council of the town of Barton Heights, Henrico county, certain authority as to the cemeteries adjoining said town. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act regulating the transportation of bodies dead of contagious or infectious diseases |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1416 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2197, chapter 99, of the Code of Virginia, in relation to burial of hogs that died from disease, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved March 30, 1890, and by an act approved February 14, 1896, so as to require the cremation or burial of all animals or fowls that die from contagious or infectious diseases, and fixing the penalties for violation thereof. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3950 of the Code of Virginia, regulating compensation of coroners and constables. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3419 of chapter 167 of the Code of 1887, relating to the appointment of trustees, as amended by an act approved February 7, 1890, as amended by an act approved March 2, 1898, as amended by an act approved December 10, 1903, entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3419, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3419 of chapter 167 of the Code of 1887, in reference to the powers of a personal representative of a dead trustee, approved February 7, 1890, and by an act approved March 7, 1898, and section 3426, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 3426 of the Code of Virginia of 1887, in relation to interlocutory decrees and orders, approved February 12, 1894, and by an act approved January 27, 1896, and by an act approved March 3, 1898. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact the act in effect February 17, 1900, regulating the transportation of bodies dead of contagious or infectious diseases. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1743-f of the Code of Virginia, prescribing rules for the transportation of dead bodies, as amended by act approved January 30, 1912. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2197 of the Code of Virginia, in relation to the disposition of dead animals and fowls, as here- tofore amended. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4125 of the Code of Virginia |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1569 of the Code of Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1568 and 1581 of the Code of Virginia, which sections are in chapter 66 of the said Code on the subject of vital statistics, section 1727 of the Code of Virginia, which section is in chapter 72 of the said Code on the subject of the practice of embalming and the transportation and disposition of dead bodies, and sections 4806, 4814 and 4818 of the Code of Virginia, which sections are in chapter 190 of the said Code on the subject of coroners’ inquests. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1720 and 1721 of the Code of Virginia, both of which sections are in chapter 72 of the said Code, on regulating the practice of embalming, and the transportation and disposition of dead bodies. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 4806, 4811, 4812 and 4815 of the Code of Virginia, section 4806 having been amended by an act approved March 20, 1924, and to repeal sections 4809 and 4984 of the said Code, all of the said sections being in relation to coroner's inquests. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 5379 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to list to be furnished by personal representatives. |
| An ACT to provide a new charter for the city of Lynchburg, Virginia. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4818 of the Code of Virginia, relating to coroners’ and constables’ fees. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1731 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the disposition of certain dead bodies. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1728 of the Code of Virginia, relating to transportation of dead bodies. |
| An ACT to provide that inquests over the bodies of persons who meet with sudden, violent, unnatural or suspicious death, or who die without medical attention, where the death, or the injury which resulted in death, occurred in Henrico county and the dead body, or the person so injured, is taken to any morgue, hospital or other place in the city of Richmond, shall be held by the coroner of said county. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1715, 1716, 1718, 1719, 1720, 1721, 1722, 1723, 1724, 1725 and 1726 of the Code of Virginia, 1919, as heretofore amended, and to add eleven new sections to the Code of Virginia, to be known and designated as sections 1715 (1), 1719-a, 1720-a, 1720-b, 1720-c, 1721-a, 1721-b, 1724-a, 1726-a, 1726-b and 1726-c, relating to the State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors, changing the name of said board from State Board of Embalming to State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors of Virginia, providing for the appointment and terms of members of said board, for the qualification of said members as to how said members shall qualify, for the meetings of said board, the election of officers of said board, for the adoption of rules and regulations by said board, for the establishment and conduct of schools; fixing the per diem of the members of said board, the compensation of its officers; prescribing the powers and duties of said board; authorizing the appointment of an inspector and providing for his authority and duties; providing for the qualification of applicants for a license, examination and licensing of embalmers, funeral directors and assistant funeral directors and the fees therefor; to prohibit false statements by applicants; to prohibit bribery and certain deceptive, misleading, improbable and unethical advertising, and to prescribe penalties for the violation thereof; to require a license of persons employed by firms and corporations; to provide for the refusal, suspension or revocation of licenses and for appeals therefrom; to prohibit certain transactions between funeral directors and embalmers and burial associations and to provide penalties for the violation thereof; to require all funds collected by the State board to be paid into the State treasury, there to be retained until appropriated by law; to prescribe what shall constitute violations of this chapter and the penalties therefor; to prescribe certain definitions and to authorize the board to adopt certain rules and regulations; to provide for certain exceptions and exclusions from the act; and to declare each part of this act severable; and to repeal section 1717 of the Code of Virginia relating to membership of the State Board of Health. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1569 of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to the duties of undertakers, and to the removal, transportation and burial of bodies of dead persons, and to repeal Section 1728 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the transportation of the bodies of dead persons. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4743 of the Code of Virginia, relating to casting dead animals into a road, so as to make it unlawful to transport a dead animal along a public road or street except in a closed container or vehicle from which no odor can escape, and to prescribe penalties for violations thereof. |
| An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4946 of the Code of Virginia relating to the disposition of certain dead bodies. |
| An ACT to revise the laws of Virginia with respect to post-mortem examinations, and to that end to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new chapter numbered 190-A and 15 new sections numbered 4806-a to 4806-0, both inclusive, creating a Commission on Post-Mortem Examinations and prescribing its powers, duties and functions; to provide for the appointment of a Chief Medical Examiner, and to prescribe his powers and duties with respect to post-mortem examinations and investigations ; to provide for the dis- position of certain dead bodies and of any property or estate of such deceased persons; to amend Section 1727, as amended, of the Code of Virginia relating to embalming dead bodies, and Sections 2817 and 2821 of said Code relating to the service of process and summons by coroners and others and the appoint- ment of criers for courts; and to repeal Sections 2815, 2818 and 2819 of the Code of Virginia relating to coroners, Chapter 190 of the Code of Virginia relating to coroners and coroner’s inquests, and Chapter 214 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932 relating to disposition by coroners of money or property of deceased persons. |
| An ACT to amend and reenact Section 4743 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, in relation to the disposal of certain maimed, diseased, disabled and infirm animals, and the bodies of dead animals. |
| AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 8-666.1, so as to regulate transportation of animal carcasses by certain persons and to prescribe penalties for violation, and to repeal § 38-295 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the same matters. |
| AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 82-70.1, so as to prohibit casting dead animals into roads, or suffering dead animals to remain unburied; to prohibit leaving any maimed, diseased or disabled animal in any public way or place; and to prescribe penalties for violation; and to repeal § 83-294 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the same matters. |
| An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 22 of Title 8, an article numbered 1.1, consisting of sections numbered 3-588.1 through 8-583.8, providing for the construction of disposal pits and the erection of incinerators for the disposal of dead poultry; defining terms; requiring the use of such disposal pits and incinerators and providing penalties for the failure to use such disposal pits and incinerators. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 19.1-42 of the Code of Virginia, relating to duties of medical examiners and fee of such examiners. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 19.1-42, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the duties of medical examiners. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 19.1-46 of the Code of Virginia, relating to disposition of bodies following postmortem examinations and payment of resultant expenses. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 54-260.60 of the Code of Virginia, relating to cremation certificates and the fee required therefor. |
| An Act to amend and reenact § 57-89 of the Code of Virginia, relating to proceedings for removal of the remains of certain dead bodies from graveyards under certain conditions; sale of land so vacated. |
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