65-1765. Failure to remove pacemaker or hazardous implants; liability for damage.

65-1765

Chapter 65.--PUBLIC HEALTH Article 17.--REGULATION OF EMBALMERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS; FUNERAL ESTABLISHMENTS

      65-1765.   Failure to remove pacemaker or hazardousimplants; liability for damage.If an authorizing agent informs the funeral director,assistant funeral director or the crematory operator in charge on the cremationauthorization form of the presence of a pacemaker or hazardous implant inthe dead human body such informed person shall be responsiblefor ensuring that all necessary steps have been taken to remove the pacemakeror hazardous implant. Should a funeraldirector or assistant funeral director who delivers a dead human body to acrematory after being informed that a pacemaker or hazardous implant is withinthe dead human body and fails to ensure that the pacemaker or hazardous implanthas been removedfrom thedead human body pursuant to subsection (b) of K.S.A. 65-1762 andamendments thereto,priorto delivery, and should the dead human body be cremated with the pacemaker orhazardous implant, then such funeral director or assistant funeral director whodelivered the dead human body to the crematory shall be liable for allresulting damages.

      History:   L. 2001, ch. 183, § 6; Jan. 1, 2002.