1602 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 669

bers of the Department of Anatomy of the Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine, to be designated by the ad-
ministrative officers of said medical schools, respectively.

(b). The said members shall serve without compensation
and shall biennially select one of its members as chairman
and one as vice-chairman, who shall act as chairman in the
absence or inability of the chairman.

161B. (a). Any public officer of the State, of Baltimore
City or of any county or other political sub-division of the
State, having charge or control over the bodies of deceased
persons required to be buried at public expense or at the
expense of any institution supported by the State, by Balti-
more City, by any county or by any other political subdivision
of the State, shall immediately after death has been pro-
nounced, notify the chairman of the Anatomy Board of the
existence and possession of such body or bodies.

(b). If the officer, person or institution having possession
of such bodies possesses or has control of a refrigeration
plant suitable to store such bodies, the Anatomy Board shall
have the right at the expiration of forty-eight hours after
death, to remove said bodies to a morgue in Baltimore City
designated by said Anatomy Board for this purpose.

(c). If the officer, person or institution having possession
of such bodies does not possess or have control of a suitable
refrigeration plant for the storage of such bodies, the Ana-
tomy Board shall have the right to remove such bodies as
soon as feasible after death to the designated morgue in Balti-
more City, where such bodies shall be refrigerated until the
expiration of forty eight hours after death has been pro-
nounced by a physician or other person authorized to issue
a death certificate.

(d). Bodies required to be buried at public expense as
hereinabove provided, shall, at the expiration of forty-eight
hours after death, be under the exclusive control of the Ana-
tomy Board and shall be properly embalmed by the persons
designated by the Board for this work; provided, however,
that any relative or friend of the deceased person may claim
the body for the purpose of interment and shall receive it
upon payment to the Board of the cost of transportation and
embalming.

161C. (a) It shall be the duty and function of the Ana-
tomy Board to distribute the bodies under its exclusive
custody and control equitably between the two medical
schools designated in Section 161A.