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–492– -492§ 2392. Intermarriage as bar to prosecution The intermarriage of the parties prior to the trial is a bar to prosecution for a violation of section 2391 of this title. CHAPTER 119^SEPULTURE Sec 2421. 2422. 2423. 2424.

Matilation or removal of human remains. Removal of human remains for sale or dissection. Defacing or injuring tombs, monuments, or cemetery property. Interment or disposal of human remains outside cemetery.

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§ 2421. Mutilation or removal of human remains (a) Whoever, without authority of law, mutilates, disinters or removes from the place of interment any human remains, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than five years, or both. (b) Subsection (a) of this section does not apply to a person who lawfully removes the remains of a relative or friend for reinterment. § 2422. Removal of human remains for sale or dissection Whoever removes any part of any human remains from a grave or other place where it has been buried, or from a place where it is deposited while awaiting burial, with intent to sell it or to dissect it, without authority of law, or from malice or wantonness, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than five years. § 2423. Defacing or injuring tombs, monuments, or cemetery property (a) Whoever unlawfully or without right willfully: (1) destroys, cuts, mutilates, breaks, effaces, defaces, or otherwise injures, tears down, or rertioves a tomb, gravestone, monument, memorial, or marker in a cemetery, or a gate, door, fence, wall, post or railing, or an enclosure for the protection of a cemetery or any property in a cemetery; (2) obliterates a grave, vault, niche, or crypt; (3) destroys, cuts, breaks, or injures a building, statue, ornamentation, tree, shrub, or plant within the limits of a cemetery; or (4) disturbs, obstructs, detains, or interferes with a person carrying or accompanying human remains to a cemetery or funeral establishment, or engaged in a funeral service, or an interment— shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned in jail not more than 30 days, or both. (b) Paragraphs (1), (2) and (8) of subsection (a) of this section do not apply to the removal or unavoidable breakage or injury, by a cemetery official or employee acting under lawful authority, of anything placed in or upon a portion of a cemetery in violation of an order, rule or regulation issued under lawful authority, nor to the removal of anything, placed in a cemetery by or with the consent of an official or employee authorized to give consent, which has become in a wrecked, unsightly, or dilapidated condition. § 2424. Interment or disposal of human remains outside cemetery Whoever, except with the permission of the Governor, buries, inters, or otherwise disposes of, any human remains, in any place other than in a cemetery or place of burial existing under the laws of the Canal Zone and m which interments are or nave been made, shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned in jail not more than 30 days, or both.

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