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410 ILCS 510/1
(410 ILCS 510/1) (from Ch. 144, par. 1551)
Sec. 1.
Superintendents of penitentiaries, houses of correction and
bridewells, hospitals, state charitable institutions and county homes,
coroners, sheriffs, jailors, funeral directors and all other state,
county, town and city officers, in whose custody is the body of any
deceased person, required to be buried at public expense, shall, in the
absence of disposition of such body, or any part thereof by will or
other written instrument, give permission to any physician or surgeon
licensed in Illinois, or to any medical college or school, or other
institution of higher science education or school of mortuary science,
public or private, of any city, town or county, upon his or their
receipt in writing and request therefor, to receive and remove free of
public charge or expense, after having given proper notice to relatives
or guardians of the deceased, the bodies of such deceased persons about
to be buried at public expense, to be by him or them used within the
state, for advancement of medical, anatomical, biological or mortuary
science. Preference shall be given to medical colleges or schools,
public or private and such bodies to be distributed to and among the
same, equitably, the number assigned to each, being in proportion to the
students of each college or school: except, if any person claiming to
be, and satisfying the proper authorities that he is of kindred of the
deceased asks to have the body for burial, it shall, in the absence of
other disposition of such body, or any part thereof by will, court order
or other written instrument, be surrendered for interment. Any medical
college or school, or other institution of higher science education or
school of mortuary science, public and private, or any officers of the
same, that receive the bodies of deceased persons for the purposes of
scientific study, under the provisions of this Act, shall furnish the
same to students of medicine, surgery and biological or mortuary
sciences, who are under their instruction, at a price not exceeding the
sum of $5 for each and every such deceased body so furnished.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 1980.)
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