225 ILCS 41/15-60

Current through Public Act 103-1052

Section 225 ILCS 41/15-60 - [Section Scheduled to be Repealed 1/1/2028] Determination of life

Every funeral director licensee or funeral director and embalmer licensee under this Code before proceeding to prepare or embalm a human body to cremate or bury shall determine that life is extinct by ascertaining that:

(a) pulsation has entirely ceased in the radial or other arteries; and

(b) heart or respiratory sounds are not audible with the use of a stethoscope or with the ear applied directly over the heart.

225 ILCS 41/15-60

P.A. 87-966.

Amended by P.A. 096-0863,§ 91-5, eff. 3/1/2010.