§ 68.50.010 Coroner’s jurisdiction over remains
§ 68.50.015 Immunity for determining cause and manner of death — Judicial review of determination
§ 68.50.020 Notice to coroner or medical examiner — Penalty
§ 68.50.032 Transportation of remains directed by coroner or medical examiner — Costs
§ 68.50.035 Unlawful to refuse burial to non-Caucasian
§ 68.50.040 Deceased’s effects to be listed
§ 68.50.050 Removal or concealment of body — Penalty
§ 68.50.060 Bodies for instruction purposes
§ 68.50.070 Human remains — Disposition
§ 68.50.080 Certificate and bond before receiving bodies
§ 68.50.090 Penalty
§ 68.50.100 Dissection, when permitted — Autopsy of person under the age of three years
§ 68.50.101 Autopsy, postmortem — Who may authorize
§ 68.50.102 Court petition for autopsy — Cost
§ 68.50.103 Autopsies in industrial deaths
§ 68.50.104 Cost of autopsy
§ 68.50.105 Autopsies, postmortems — Reports and records confidential — Exceptions
§ 68.50.106 Autopsies, postmortems — Analyses — Opinions — Evidence — Costs
§ 68.50.107 State toxicological laboratory established — State toxicologist
§ 68.50.108 Autopsies, postmortems — Consent to embalm, cremate body, or make final disposition — Time limitation
§ 68.50.110 Burial, cremation, alkaline hydrolysis, or natural organic reduction
§ 68.50.115 Coroner and medical examiner liability — Release of information
§ 68.50.120 Holding body for debt — Penalty
§ 68.50.130 Unlawful disposal of remains
§ 68.50.140 Unlawful disturbance, removal, or sale of human remains — Penalty
§ 68.50.160 Right to control disposition of remains — Liability of funeral establishment or cemetery authority — Liability for cost
§ 68.50.170 Effect of authorization
§ 68.50.185 Individual final disposition — Exception — Penalty
§ 68.50.200 Permission to remove human remains
§ 68.50.210 Notice for order to remove remains
§ 68.50.220 Exceptions
§ 68.50.230 Human remains that have not been disposed — Rules
§ 68.50.232 Remains — Entrusting to funeral homes or mortuaries
§ 68.50.240 Record of human remains to be kept
§ 68.50.270 Possession of human remains
§ 68.50.290 Corneal tissue for transplantation — Presumption of good faith
§ 68.50.300 Release of information concerning a death
§ 68.50.310 Dental identification system established — Powers and duties
§ 68.50.320 Procedures for investigating missing persons — Availability of files
§ 68.50.325 Indigenous persons — Identification of remains — Spiritual practices
§ 68.50.330 Identification of body or human remains by dental examination — Comparison of dental examination records with dental records of dental identification system
§ 68.50.645 Skeletal human remains — Duty to notify — Ground disturbing activities — Coroner determination — Definitions
§ 68.50.900 Effective date — 1987 c 331
§ 68.50.901 Application — 1993 c 228
§ 68.50.902 Application — Construction — 1993 c 228
§ 68.50.903 Severability — 1993 c 228
§ 68.50.904 Short title — 1993 c 228
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