157.04 Penalty. Any officer or person having a corpse in charge, and refusing to report and deliver it, when required by this subchapter, or violating the provisions forbidding sale or delivery thereof, to be used outside the state, shall be liable to the person, university or medical school aggrieved, in the sum of $50.
History: 1985 a. 316 s. 14; Stats. 1985 s. 157.04.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 157 - Disposition of human remains.
157.01 - Rules for preparation, transportation and disposition.
157.02 - Disposal of unclaimed corpses.
157.055 - Disposal of human remains during state of emergency relating to public health.
157.062 - Cemetery associations; creation; powers and duties.
157.064 - Cemetery associations and religious associations; holding property; change of ownership.
157.065 - Location and ownership of cemeteries.
157.067 - Connection with funeral establishment prohibited.
157.10 - Alienation, disposition, and use of cemetery lots and mausoleum spaces.
157.11 - Improvement and care of cemetery lots and grounds.
157.111 - Opening and closing of burial places.
157.112 - Reburial of human remains by a cemetery authority.
157.113 - Permission to place cremated human remains in a cemetery.
157.114 - Duty to provide for burials.
157.115 - Abandonment of cemeteries and cemetery lots.
157.123 - Columbaria maintained by religious associations.
157.125 - Trustees for the care of cemeteries or cemetery lots.
157.128 - Minimum acreage requirement for cemetery established on or after November 1, 1991.
157.129 - Minimum acreage of cemeteries; local ordinance.
157.19 - Deposit and investment of care funds and preneed trust funds.
157.50 - Municipal cemeteries.
157.60 - Public easement in cemetery.
157.62 - Reporting; record keeping; audits.