Ohio § 1713.34 Medical colleges or embalming board may receive bodies for study or dissection - procedure

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§ 1713.34 — Medical colleges or embalming board may receive bodies for study or dissection - procedure

Ohio § 1713.34

Title 17Corporations-Partnerships

Ch. 1713Educational Corporations

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Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1713.34 (2026).

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Superintendents of city hospitals, directors or superintendents of city infirmaries, county homes, or other charitable institutions, directors or superintendents of workhouses, founded and supported in whole or in part at public expense, superintendents or managing officers of state benevolent    institutions, boards of township trustees,  sheriffs, or coroners,  in possession of bodies not claimed or  identified, or which must  be buried at the expense of the state,  county, or township,  before burial, shall notify the professor of  anatomy in a college  which by its charter is empowered to teach  anatomy, or the  secretary of the board of embalmers and funeral  directors of this  state, of the fact that such bodies are being so  held. If after a  period of thirty-six hours the body has 

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Superintendents of city hospitals, directors or superintendents of city infirmaries, county homes, or other charitable institutions, directors or superintendents of workhouses, founded and supported in whole or in part at public expense, superintendents or managing officers of state benevolent institutions, boards of township trustees, sheriffs, or coroners, in possession of bodies not claimed or identified, or which must be buried at the expense of the state, county, or township, before burial, shall notify the professor of anatomy in a college which by its charter is empowered to teach anatomy, or the secretary of the board of embalmers and funeral directors of this state, of the fact that such bodies are being so held. If after a period of thirty-six hours the body has not been accepted by friends or relatives for burial at their expense, such superintendent, director, or other officer, on the written application of such professor, or the secretary of the board of embalmers and funeral directors, shall deliver to such professor or secretary, for the purpose of medical or surgical study or dissection or for the study of embalming, the body of any such person who died in any of such institutions from any disease which is not infectious. The expense of the delivery of the body shall be borne by the parties in whose keeping the body was placed.