Section 34-26A-2 - Authorizing agent defined--Public official or institutional representative asauthorizing agent. - South Dakota Statutes

34-26A-2. Authorizing agent defined--Public official or institutional representative as authorizing agent. The authorizing agent is any person according to the priority established in § 34-26-16 legally entitled to order the cremation of human remains including a spouse, a parent, a child, or a close relative of the deceased, or in the absence of any of these, a friend of the deceased. For an indigent or any other individual whose final disposition is the responsibility of the state, a public official charged with arranging the final disposition of the deceased may serve as the authorizing agent. For an individual who has donated his body to science, or whose death occurred in a private institution, and in which the institution is charged with making arrangements for the final disposition of the deceased, a representative of the institution may serve as the authorizing agent.

Source: SL 1988, ch 283, § 2.