Sec. 19a-287. (Formerly Sec. 19-144). Penalty.
Sec. 19a-287. (Formerly Sec. 19-144). Penalty. Any selectman, or mayor, the
Chief Medical Examiner or deputy medical examiner or an assistant medical examiner,
or the administrative head of any state correctional institution, or the superintendent or
person in charge of any almshouse, asylum, hospital, morgue or other public institution
which is supported, in whole or in part, at public expense, who delivers a corpse, for
the purposes of medical and surgical study, to any person in violation of any provision
of this chapter, or any person who violates any provision of this chapter for which no
other penalty is prescribed, or any person knowing that the deceased had relatives, either
by blood or marriage, who desired to give the body a decent burial, or to whom the
deceased had expressed a desire that his body should be buried, who wilfully neglects
or refuses to give information thereof to the persons in charge of such body, having
reasonable opportunity for so doing and having knowledge of the fact that such body
may be delivered for medical or surgical purposes, shall be fined not more than five
hundred dollars.
(1949 Rev., S. 4220; 1963, P.A. 642, S. 19; 1969, P.A. 425, S. 10; 699, S. 26.)
History: 1963 act deleted obsolete references to delivery by sheriff or jailer, substituting state jail administrator; 1969
acts deleted coroners, added chief, deputy and assistant medical examiners and replaced state jail administrator with
administrative heads of state correctional institutions and replaced masters of almshouses, asylums, hospitals, etc. with
superintendents or persons in charge of such facilities as persons subject to fine; Sec. 19-144 transferred to Sec. 19a-287
in 1983.