Md. Code, Health - General § 5-512
This is the official text of Md. Code, Health - General § 5-512, part of Maryland’s Code, Health - General — covers public health regulation.
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§5–512.
Official statutory text
(a) A practitioner or an operator of a crematory or reduction facility 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, alkaline hydrolysis, or natural organic reduction of a decedent.
(b) A person may not authorize cremation, alkaline hydrolysis, or natural organic reduction when a decedent has left instructions in a document that the decedent does not wish to be cremated or be subject to alkaline hydrolysis or natural organic reduction.
(b) A person may not authorize cremation, alkaline hydrolysis, or natural organic reduction when a decedent has left instructions in a document that the decedent does not wish to be cremated or be subject to alkaline hydrolysis or natural organic reduction.
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