62-5-504 - Prerequisites to cremation. - Tennessee Statutes

62-5-504. Prerequisites to cremation.

No operator of a crematory facility shall cremate or allow the cremation at a crematory facility of a dead human body, other than one that was donated to science for purposes of medical education or research, until all of the following have occurred:

     (1)  The requirements of § 62-5-513 have been met, unless the decedent having died from a virulent communicable disease, the department of health or board of health having territorial jurisdiction where the death of the decedent occurred requires by rule or order the cremation to occur prior to those requirements being met;

     (2)  The operator has received a burial or burial-transit permit that authorizes the cremation of the decedent; and

     (3)  The operator has received any other documentation required by this state or a political subdivision of this state.

[Acts 1999, ch. 215, § 4; 2000, ch. 779, §§ 4, 5, 30.]