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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="5-506" title_number="5" title_name="Death" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Miscellaneous Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A health officer may take control of a body that is being kept in a room where an individual lives and that is in a condition that endangers an individual in the house where the body is kept if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>At least 3 individuals living near the house or a physician asks the health officer, in writing, to order final disposition of the body;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The health officer issues an order for final disposition, within a time period stated in the order; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Final disposition of the body is not made within that time.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A person may not obstruct the carrying out of an order of a health officer under this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
