Chap. 82.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1731 of the Code of Virginia,
rclating to the disposition of certain dead _ bodies. [fH B 91]

Approved March 2, 1928

I. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion seventeen hundred and thirty-one of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1731. All officers, agents and servants of every city in
the State, and of every almshouse, prison, morgue, hospital, jail, or
other public institution in such city, and of every public asylum or
institution for the insane in the State, having charge or control of
any dead human body which is required to be buried at the public
expense, and every officer or other person having charge or control
of the body of any person upon whom the sentence of death for
crime has been executed under the law, shall notify the said board.
or such person or persons, as may, from time to time, be designated
by the board or their duly authorized officer or agent, whenever and
as soon as any such body comes to his or their possession, charge
or control; and shall, without fee or reward, deliver such body, and
permit the said board and its agents, and such physicians and sur-
geons as may, from time to time, be designated by the board, shall
have given the bond required by section seventeen hundred and
thirty-four, to take and remove any such body, to be used for the
advancement of medical science; hut no such notice need be given
nor shall any such body be delivered if any person claiming to be.
and satisfying the authorities in charge of said body that he is of
kin or related by marriage to the deceased, shall claim the hody for
burial and pav the expenses thereof; nor shall the notice be given or

the body be delivered, if the deceased was a traveler who died sud-
denly.