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Procedure of the Gaines County justice of the peace, Precinct 1, under Health and Safety Code section 716.004 for a waiver of the 48-hour waiting period for cremation: an application completed and signed by a family member and the funeral director, submitted by email, fax or through the funeral director; after-hours contact through the sheriff's office; an approved waiver is sent to the funeral director; the judge may grant a waiver only for an inquest the judge conducts.
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PROCEDURES FOR 48 HOUR CREMATION WAIVER Listed below is Gaines County Justice of the Peace Precinct 1 procedures and guidelines to receive a 48 hour cremation waiver. We would like to start off by saying no cremation order waiver is necessary for deaths that occurred more than 48 hours prior. Although Texas Health and Safety Code 716.004 does require Justice of the Peace and Medical Examiners to
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-25 (AJR-7 Seventh Region build, own-site layer) from BenchPath custody ajr7 corpus sources/documents/8bbb434f7eec1fe8-procedures-for-48-hour-cremation-waiver.pdf (278,660 bytes, sha256 8bbb434f7eec1fe8d1f11262bde57892df15ec2b98fbb5890b1b4084cea8c667; 1 page(s)) - the document the Gaines County website posts (https://www.co.gaines.tx.us/upload/page/8653/CremationWaiverProcedures.pdf), not registered with the Office of Court Administration's TOPICs registry as of 2026-09-25: transcribed by eye from the rendered pages of the scanned file (no machine text relied on) and read a second time against the page images - for long documents word by word against an independent machine OCR of the same scan, every disagreement and every handwritten entry resolved on the image; signature, seal and file-stamp blocks bracketed. Signed: Honorable Patrick "Packy" Kissick (undated).
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