40A:9-55 - Delivery of identified dead bodies to proper persons; records - New Jersey Statutes

40A:9-55.  Delivery of identified dead bodies to proper persons; records
    If any dead body in a morgue received as being unidentified shall thereafter  be identified, the morgue keeper, upon the order of the county medical examiner  shall deliver such body to any proper person willing to accept the  responsibility therefor.  Said person shall state the name and last known  residence of the deceased and acknowledge receipt of the body by signing for it  in a book to be kept by the morgue keeper for that purpose.

    The morgue keeper shall make and keep a record of all bodies received and their disposition.

     L.1971, c. 200, s. 1, eff. July 1, 1971.