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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ADOPTED
March 9, 2004
S. 857
S. Printed 3/9/04--S.
Read the first time January 22, 2004.
TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 59-117-110 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE REMAINS OF ANY PERSON WHO DONATED HIS OR HER BODY TO THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA MEDICAL SCHOOL FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PURPOSES MUST BE INTERRED BY THE MEDICAL SCHOOL AT ITS EXPENSE IN A MARKED CEMETERY GRAVESITE IF THE REMAINS WERE BURIED OR IF THE REMAINS WERE CREMATED IN A MEMORIAL GARDEN CRYPT WHICH IDENTIFIES THE DECEDENT'S ASHES.
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Chapter 117, Title 59 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 59-117-110. The University of South Carolina School of Medicine may remove and relocate, at its expense, the cremains of a person, whose body was donated to and the cremains interred by the school of medicine from a grave or cemetery in the State to a memorial garden maintained at the school of medicine. Before the removal and relocation, the school of medicine shall notify the Department of Health and Environmental Control but is not required to obtain a permit as may otherwise be required by law or regulation."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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