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USA Statutes : maine
Title : Title 22. HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter : Chapter 709. DISPOSAL OF DEAD BODIES
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Title 22 - §2881. Delivery to physician for scientific purposes
Title 22: HEALTH AND WELFARE
Subtitle 2: HEALTH
Part 6: BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS
Chapter 709: DISPOSAL OF DEAD BODIES
§2881. Delivery to physician for scientific purposes
If any resident of the State requests or consents that after death his body may be delivered to a regular physician or surgeon
for the advancement of anatomical science, it may be used for that purpose, unless some kindred or family connection makes
objection.
The Revisor's Office cannot provide legal advice or
interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal
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Office of the Revisor of Statutes
7 State House Station
State House Room 108
Augusta, Maine 04333-0007
This page created on: 2005-10-01
Title 22 - §2882. Collection, distribution and delivery
Title 22: HEALTH AND WELFARE
Subtitle 2: HEALTH
Part 6: BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS
Chapter 709: DISPOSAL OF DEAD BODIES
§2882. Collection, distribution and delivery
The professors of anatomy, the professors of surgery and the demonstrators of anatomy in the medical schools of the State
which are now or may hereafter become incorporated by Act of the Legislature shall be and are constituted a board for the
collection, distribution and delivery of dead human bodies to and among such persons as under this chapter are entitled thereto.
When no medical schools of the State are in active operation, the Superintendent of the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center, the
Superintendent of the Riverview Psychiatric Center, the Superintendent of the Eastern Maine Medical Center, the Superintendent
of the Maine Medical Center and the Superintendent of the Central Maine Medical Center shall constitute the board. The said
board shall have full power to establish rules and regulations for its government and to appoint and remove officers, and
shall keep full and complete minutes of its transactions. Records shall be kept under its direction of all bodies received
and distributed by said board and of the persons to whom the same are distributed. The minutes and records shall be open at
all times to the inspection of each member of said board, the Attorney General and the district attorney of any county within
the State.
[1981, c. 470, Pt. A, §95 (amd); 2005, c. 236, §§3, 4 (rev).]
The Revisor's Office cannot provide legal advice or
interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal
advice, please consult
a qualified attorney.
Office of the Revisor of Statutes
7 State House Station
State House Room 108
Augusta, Maine 04333-0007
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Title 22 - §2883. Deaths in almshouses, prisons and institutions
Title 22: HEALTH AND WELFARE
Subtitle 2: HEALTH
Part 6: BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS
Chapter 709: DISPOSAL OF DEAD BODIES
§2883. Deaths in almshouses, prisons and institutions
All public officers, agents and servants of any and every county and municipality, and of any and every almshouse, prison,
morgue, hospital or any other public institution having charge or control over dead human bodies required to be buried at
the public expense are required to notify immediately the board of distribution, or the person or persons as may from time
to time be designated by the board, or its duly authorized officer or agent, whenever any body or bodies come into their possession,
charge or control, and shall, without fee or reward, deliver the body or bodies to the board or its duly authorized officer
or agent, and permit and suffer the board or its agents, or the physicians and surgeons from time to time designated by it
or them, who comply with this chapter, to take and remove any and all bodies to be used within the State for the advancement
of medical education. No notice need be given and no body must be delivered if any person, satisfying the authorities in charge
of the body that the person is a member of the family or next of kin to the deceased, shall claim the body for burial, but
it must be surrendered to the person for interment, and no notice may be given and no body delivered to the board or its agents
if the deceased person was a traveler and not a vagabond, who died suddenly, in which case the body must be buried. No notice
may be given and no body delivered to the board or its agents by the Department of Corrections if, at its option, the department
assumes responsibility for the expenses of burial. The option may be exercised by the Department of Corrections regardless
of whether the body is claimed by a member of the family or next of kin, but in such a case it may only be exercised with
the agreement of the person making the claim. The superintendents and medical staffs of the Riverview Psychiatric Center
and the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center, having charge or control over dead human bodies required to be buried at public expense,
when no person satisfies the superintendent of either hospital for the mentally ill, and the department that the person is
a member of the family of, or has some family connection or is next of kin to the deceased, and wishes to claim the body for
burial, may for the advancement of science hold an autopsy and examine the body of the deceased person, notwithstanding any
provisions of this chapter.
[1995, c. 395, Pt. G, §7 (amd); 2005, c. 236, §§3,4 (rev).]
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Notwithstanding the availability of lump sum death benefits under the United States Social Security Act, the term "buried
at public expense" as written in this section shall be deemed to include the unclaimed dead bodies of all indigent persons
otherwise within the intendment of this section.
[1989, c. 56 (amd).]
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As used in this section, "burial" includes cremation and burial of the cremated remains of the body.
[2001, c. 386, §5 (new).]
The Revisor's Office cannot provide legal advice or
interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal
advice, please consult
a qualified attorney.
Office of the Revisor of Statutes
7 State House Station
State House Room 108
Augusta, Maine 04333-0007
This page created on: 2005-10-01
Title 22 - §2884. Distribution of bodies
Title 22: HEALTH AND WELFARE
Subtitle 2: HEALTH
Part 6: BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS
Chapter 709: DISPOSAL OF DEAD BODIES
§2884. Distribution of bodies
The board or its duly authorized agent may take and receive such bodies, so delivered, and shall upon receiving them after
7 days from the date of decease distribute and deliver them to or among the schools, physicians and surgeons in the following
manner: Those schools needing bodies for lectures and demonstrations shall first be supplied as fast as practicable, the number
assigned to each to be based upon the number of students in actual attendance, which number shall be returned to the board
at such times as it shall direct. The board of distribution may from time to time designate physicians or surgeons who shall
receive said bodies, applications to be considered in the order of their receipt by said board. Subject to this chapter, it
shall be lawful for the University of Maine System, Colby College, Bates College and Bowdoin College or any recognized medical
school in New England to receive such bodies for the promotion of medical education, which shall be construed to include nursing
training and premedical education.
[1985, c. 778, §62 (amd).]
The Revisor's Office cannot provide legal advice or
interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal
advice, please consult
a qualified attorney.
Office of the Revisor of Statutes
7 State House Station
State House Room 108
Augusta, Maine 04333-0007
This page created on: 2005-10-01
Title 22 - §2885. Enclosed from public view; carriers to obtain receipts
Title 22: HEALTH AND WELFARE
Subtitle 2: HEALTH
Part 6: BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS
Chapter 709: DISPOSAL OF DEAD BODIES
§2885. Enclosed from public view; carriers to obtain receipts
The said board may employ a carrier or carriers for the conveyance of said bodies, and the said bodies shall be well enclosed
within a suitable encasement and carefully deposited free from public observation. Said carrier shall obtain receipts by name
or, if the deceased is unknown, by a description for each body delivered by him, which receipt shall state the source from
which said body was received, and shall deposit said receipts with the secretary of said board.
The Revisor's Office cannot provide legal advice or
interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal
advice, please consult
a qualified attorney.
Office of the Revisor of Statutes
7 State House Station
State House Room 108
Augusta, Maine 04333-0007
This page created on: 2005-10-01
Title 22 - §2886. Bond for proper disposal; traffic outside of State
Title 22: HEALTH AND WELFARE
Subtitle 2: HEALTH
Part 6: BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS
Chapter 709: DISPOSAL OF DEAD BODIES
§2886. Bond for proper disposal; traffic outside of State
No school, college, university, or any recognized medical school in New England, physician or surgeon shall be allowed or
permitted to receive any such body or bodies until a bond shall be given to the Treasurer of State by such physician or surgeon,
or by and in behalf of such school, college, university or any recognized medical school in New England, to be approved by
a justice of a court of record in and for the county in which said physician or surgeon resides, or in which such school,
college, university or any recognized medical school in New England is situated. Such bond shall be in the penal sum of $1,000,
conditioned that all such bodies, which the said physician or surgeon or the said school, college, university or any recognized
medical school in New England shall receive thereafter, shall be used only for the promotion within the state of medical education,
which shall be construed to include nursing training and premedical education, and when no longer needed for such educational
purposes shall be decently buried. Said bond shall be examined annually in the month of December by the Treasurer of State
and he shall certify in writing upon each bond in his possession his approval of the same. In case any bond is not approved
by him, he shall immediately notify the party giving the same, who shall forthwith file a new bond. Whosoever shall sell or
buy such body or bodies, or in any way traffic in the same, or shall transmit or convey such body or bodies to any place outside
of the State, or cause the same to be done, except as provided in section 2884, shall be punished by a fine of not more than
$200 or by imprisonment for not more than 11 months.
The Revisor's Office cannot provide legal advice or
interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal
advice, please consult
a qualified attorney.
Office of the Revisor of Statutes
7 State House Station
State House Room 108
Augusta, Maine 04333-0007
This page created on: 2005-10-01
Title 22 - §2887. Expenses
Title 22: HEALTH AND WELFARE
Subtitle 2: HEALTH
Part 6: BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS
Chapter 709: DISPOSAL OF DEAD BODIES
§2887. Expenses
Neither the State nor any county or municipality, nor any officer, agent or servant thereof shall be at any expense by reason
of the delivery or distribution of any such body, but all the expenses thereof, and of said board of distribution, shall be
paid by those receiving the bodies in such manner as shall be specified by said board of distribution.
The Revisor's Office cannot provide legal advice or
interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal
advice, please consult
a qualified attorney.
Office of the Revisor of Statutes
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State House Room 108
Augusta, Maine 04333-0007
This page created on: 2005-10-01
Title 22 - §2888. Neglect to discharge duties
Title 22: HEALTH AND WELFARE
Subtitle 2: HEALTH
Part 6: BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS
Chapter 709: DISPOSAL OF DEAD BODIES
§2888. Neglect to discharge duties
Any person having duties enjoined upon him by this chapter who shall neglect, refuse or omit to perform the same as required
by this chapter shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $500, for each offense.
The Revisor's Office cannot provide legal advice or
interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal
advice, please consult
a qualified attorney.
Office of the Revisor of Statutes
7 State House Station
State House Room 108
Augusta, Maine 04333-0007
This page created on: 2005-10-01
Title 22 - §2889. Disposal of eyes after death (REPEALED)
Title 22: HEALTH AND WELFARE
Subtitle 2: HEALTH
Part 6: BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS
Chapter 709: DISPOSAL OF DEAD BODIES
§2889. Disposal of eyes after death (REPEALED)
The Revisor's Office cannot provide legal advice or
interpretation of Maine law to the public. If you need legal
advice, please consult
a qualified attorney.
Office of the Revisor of Statutes
7 State House Station
State House Room 108
Augusta, Maine 04333-0007
This page created on: 2005-10-01
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