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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="5-512" title_number="5" title_name="Death" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Miscellaneous Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A practitioner or an operator of a crematory or reduction facility may not require an authorizing agent to obtain appointment as personal representative of the decedent’s estate as a condition precedent to making final arrangements or authorizing cremation, alkaline hydrolysis, or natural organic reduction of a decedent.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A person may not authorize cremation, alkaline hydrolysis, or natural organic reduction when a decedent has left instructions in a document that the decedent does not wish to be cremated or be subject to alkaline hydrolysis or natural organic reduction.</text>
  </level>
</section>
