C-68 - Coroners Act

Section 35 Disposition versions

1977-12-31

35. Any unclaimed body shall be buried at the expense of the municipality in which it was found, or at the expense of the county municipality if it was found in an unorganized territory, unless disposed of in the manner prescribed by the Public Health Protection Act (chapter P-35). Such municipality may recover the expenses it has incurred from the estate of the deceased.

Any body found upon the beach of, or in the river St. Lawrence, and not claimed shall be buried in such manner as the coroner indicates, at the expense of Québec.

1966-67, c. 19, s. 35; 1977, c. 47, s. 10.