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PDF versionCOMPILER’S NOTE: This act amends Private Acts of 1911, Chapter 237, and should be read in conjunction with said act.
SECTION 1. That Chapter 237 of the Private Acts of 1911, being captioned above, together with any amendatory Acts thereof, be amended so as to provide that the Memphis and Shelby County Health Department have authority, and it shall be its duty, whenever it deems an emergency to exist, or the cause of death obscure or disputed, to require an order for an autopsy on the body of any person dying at the Shelby County Tuberculosis Hospital, now known as Oakville Memorial Sanatorium, under circumstances and with diseases deemed dangerous to the health and welfare of the community.
SECTION 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act, be, and the same are, hereby repealed.
SECTION 3. That this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.
Passed: February 16, 1945.