Ohio Rev. Code § 1713.41

Current with legislation from 2024 received as of May 9, 2024.
Section 1713.41 - Prohibition against refusal to deliver corpse

No superintendent of a city hospital, city infirmary, county home, workhouse, hospital for persons with mental illnesses, or other charitable institution founded and supported in whole or in part at public expense, coroner, infirmary director, sheriff, or township trustee, shall fail to deliver a body of a deceased person when applied for, in conformity to law, or charge, receive, or accept money or other valuable consideration for the delivery.

This section does not require the delivery of the body until twenty-four hours after death.

R.C. § 1713.41

Amended by 134th General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 281,§1, eff. 4/6/2023.
Effective Date: 4/9/1981 .