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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>54369</law_id><section_number>32.1-309.3</section_number><catch_line>Cremations and burials at sea</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>54.1-2818.1</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="32.1">Health</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="8.1">Disposition of Dead Human Bodies</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No dead human body whose death occurred in Virginia shall be cremated or buried at sea, irrespective of the cause and manner of death, unless the Chief Medical Examiner, an Assistant Chief Medical Examiner, or a medical examiner appointed pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Medical examiners" href="/32.1-282/">32.1-282</a> has determined that there is no further need for medicolegal inquiry into the death and so certifies upon a form supplied by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. For this service the Chief Medical Examiner, an Assistant Chief Medical Examiner, or a medical examiner appointed pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Medical examiners" href="/32.1-282/">32.1-282</a> shall be entitled to a fee established by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>, not to exceed the fee provided for in subsection D of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Investigation of deaths; obtaining consent to removal of organs, etc.; fees" href="/32.1-283/">32.1-283</a>, to be paid by the applicant for the certificate.</p></section></text><history>2014, cc. 228, 583.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
