If a funeral home, funeral director, crematory operator, or other person asked to assist with a declarant’s or deceased person’s funeral, burial, cremation, or other manner of final disposition is in possession of a declarant’s or deceased person’s remains while a dispute described in section 2108.83 of the Revised Code is pending, the funeral home, funeral director, crematory operator, or other person may embalm or refrigerate and shelter the remains to preserve them and may add the cost of embalming, refrigeration, and sheltering to the final disposition costs to be charged.

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