Tex. Health & Safety Code § 716.053 · Subchapter B. AUTHORIZATION REQUIREMENTS
DELEGATION OF CREMATION AUTHORIZATION AUTHORITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) An authorizing agent may delegate to a representative in writing the authority to execute a cremation authorization form.
(b) An authorizing agent's written delegation of authority must be notarized and include:
(1) the name and address of the authorizing agent and the relationship of the authorizing agent to the deceased person;
(2) the name and address of the representative; and
(3) an acknowledgment by the authorizing agent that the representative may serve as the authorizing agent and execute the cremation authorization form.
(c) A crematory establishment is not liable in a civil action for relying on a cremation authorization form executed by a representative of the authorizing agent to whom authority is delegated in accordance with this section.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 178, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.716.htm
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Cited by 4 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Health & Safety Code § 716.053. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 716.104IDENTIFICATION RESPONSIBILITIES OF FUNERAL DIRECTOR OR ESTABLISHMENT.Printed as Section 716.053
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 716.152CREMATION PROCESS.Printed as Section 716.053
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 716.155TEMPORARY CONTAINER OR URN.Printed as Section 716.053
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 716.301TRANSPORT OF CREMATED REMAINS.Printed as Section 716.053
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