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Section 34-26-12 - Autopsies at hospitals for the mentally ill.

34-26-12. Autopsies at hospitals for the mentally ill. Nothing contained in §§ 34-26-8 to 34-26-11, inclusive, shall preclude the officers of the state hospitals for the mentally ill from using the unclaimed remains of patients dying in such hospitals to make autopsies for pathological study.

Source: SL 1909, ch 278, § 4; RC 1919, § 5595; SDC 1939, § 15.1104.