Section 5-512 - Authorizing agent as personal representative not required; documents negating cremation. - Maryland Statutes

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

(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. 
 

[1994, ch. 517; 1995, chs. 379, 517.]