The Director of the Department of Human Services is authorized to provide and furnish proper containers for the reception, burial, and identification of the ashes of all human bodies of indigent persons that are cremated at the public crematorium, which ashes remain unclaimed after 12 months from date of such cremation.
(May 21, 1928, 45 Stat. 669, ch. 659; July 3, 1930, 46 Stat. 975, ch. 848; Aug. 1, 1950, 64 Stat. 393, ch. 513, § 1.)
1981 Ed., § 6-114.
1973 Ed., § 6-115.
Office of Director of Public Health abolished: See Historical and Statutory Notes following § 7-101.
Structure District of Columbia Code
Title 7 - Human Health Care and Safety
Subchapter IV - General Provisions
§ 7–171. Chief Clerk and Chief Inspector not to act as deputy
§ 7–173. Inspector of Fish and Other Marine Products
§ 7–174. Certain ordinances of Board of Health legalized — Generally; exceptions
§ 7–175. Certain ordinances of Board of Health legalized — Titles
§ 7–177. Certain ordinances of Board of Health legalized — Alteration, amendment, or repeal
§ 7–178. Reception, burial, and identification of ashes of certain cremated indigent persons
§ 7–179. Dairy Inspector may act as Inspector of Livestock
§ 7–180. Tuberculosis Sanatoria and District of Columbia General Hospital