194.060. Transportation of dead body by common carrier, requirements. - Missouri Statutes

Transportation of dead body by common carrier, requirements.

194.060. No dead human body shall be offered to or acceptedby any common carrier for transportation unless it is in a burialcase, coffin or casket that is securely closed, and the burialcase, coffin, or casket containing the body is in a wooden, metalor metal-lined box that is securely closed, and on the top of thebox must appear the name of the deceased, the destination, thetime and place of death, the cause of death, the name of theattending physician or coroner, and the name of the person whoprepared the body for shipment.

(RSMo 1939 § 9793, A.L. 1984 S.B. 574)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 9072; 1919 § 5828; 1909 § 6696