Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 58

Coroners and Inquests

←58.457

Section 58.460.1

58.470→

August 28, 2015

Disposition of body a duty of coroner, when.

58.460. Whenever an inquest shall be held, or any case in which the

coroner is involved, if there be no relative or friend of the deceased, nor

any person willing to bury the body, nor any person whose duty it is to

attend to such burial, the coroner shall order the embalming of the body,

procure an inexpensive plain coffin, and cause a grave to be dug and the body

to be conveyed thereto and buried, or shall cause the body to be cremated and

shall cause the cremated remains to be disposed of in a lawful manner in a

marked grave. It shall be the duty of the coroner, in so doing, to avoid all

unnecessary expense, and to render to the commission an accurate statement of

all money expended by him for such purpose; and the county commission shall

make to him a reasonable allowance for his actual expenses in procuring the

coffin, transporting the deceased to the grave, digging the grave and burying

the body, or in obtaining such cremation and disposition of the cremated

remains in a marked grave; and also a reasonable allowance, according to the

circumstances, for his own time and services in attending to such

preparations and burial, or to such cremation and disposition in a marked

grave.



(RSMo 1939 § 13245, A.L. 1989 H.B. 64 merged with S.B. 389)



Prior revisions: 1929 § 11626; 1919 § 5934; 1909 § 2939







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