Section 3440. Funeral directors; duty to use prescribed tests of death  


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  • Before removing the body of a deceased person from the place of death or
      preparing it for burial  by  injection  of  fluid  or  otherwise,  every
      funeral  director,  undertaker or embalmer shall apply such tests as are
      prescribed by the commissioner for determining whether life is  extinct.
      If the body is not to be embalmed the same tests shall be made before it
      is prepared for burial.