§ 5-512. Authorizing agent as personal representative not required; documents negating cremation

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(a) Authorizing agent as personal representative. -- A practitioner or an operator of a crematory may not require an authorizing agent to obtain appointment as personal representative of the decedent's estate as a condition precedent to making final arrangements or authorizing cremation of a decedent.

(b) Documents negating wish for cremation. -- A person may not authorize cremation when a decedent has left instructions in a document that the decedent does not wish to be cremated.

HISTORY: 1994, ch. 517; 1995, chs. 379, 517.

                    
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