§ 24-20.004. Embalming fee.

Pursuant to Government Code Section 27471, whenever the coroner takes custody of a dead body pursuant to law, he may embalm the body and charge and collect thirty-five dollars, except when the body is that of a child not more than fourteen years of age or of a person for whose burial there is available less than one hundred fifty dollars, in which cases the expense of embalming is a county charge. Any collections hereunder shall be paid into the county treasury.

(Ord. 76-28).