Iowa Code 156.2 – Persons excluded
Current as of: 2024 | Check for updates
|
Other versions
The terms defined in section 156.1 shall not be construed to include the following classes of persons:
1. Manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, and retailers of caskets, vaults, urns, or other burial receptacles not engaged in the other functions of furnishing of funeral services or embalming as above defined.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 156.2
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
2. Those who use bodies for scientific purposes as defined in sections 142.1, 142.2, and 142.5; or those who make scientific examinations of dead bodies; or those who perform autopsies.
3. Physicians or institutions who preserve parts of human bodies either for scientific purposes or for use as evidence in prospective legal cases.
4. Persons who, without compensation, bury their own dead under a burial transit permit secured pursuant to section 144.32.