(1) A funeral service establishment may not make or enforce a rule requiring that human remains be placed in a casket before alkaline hydrolysis.

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Terms Used In Utah Code 58-9-615

  • Alkaline hydrolysis: means a water-based dissolution process using alkaline chemicals, heat, and sometimes agitation or pressure that reduces human remains to a liquid and to dry bone residue and includes the disposal of the liquid and the processing and pulverization of the dry bone residue. See Utah Code 58-9-102
  • Funeral service: means a service, rite, or ceremony performed:
         (19)(a) with respect to the death of a human; and
         (19)(b) with the body of the deceased present. See Utah Code 58-9-102
  • Funeral service establishment: includes :
              (21)(b)(i) all portions of the business premises and all tools, instruments, and supplies used in the preparation and embalming of dead human bodies for burial, cremation, alkaline hydrolysis, and final disposition as defined by division rule; and
              (21)(b)(ii) a facility used by the business in which funeral services may be conducted. See Utah Code 58-9-102
(2) A funeral service establishment may not refuse to accept human remains for alkaline hydrolysis because the human remains are not in a casket.