{"id":"AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-095","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Michigan - Department of Health and Human Services (State health department)","state":"MI","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS","eco":"","issuer":"Robert Gordon, Director, MDHHS","authority":"MCL 333.2253 (recited)","instrument":"Emergency Order Under MCL 333.2253 - Handling of Bodily Remains","title":"Modifies disposition-of-remains rules to relieve hospitals and funeral homes: 24-hour and 48-hour limits on locating and acting by persons with authority over disposition; embalming without authorization in stated cases; suspension of MCL 333.2653(2) cremation waiting rules; temporary storage of remains at alternate facilities under a mortuary science licensee\u0027s supervision; medical examiners to authorize cremation as quickly as possible","dateIssued":"2020-05-04","effective":"immediately; \u0027remains in effect until lifted\u0027","end":"lifted (2021)","startDate":"2020-05-04","endDate":"2021-06-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2"],"types":["EMP","OTHER"],"addressees":["health facilities","funeral directors and mortuary science licensees","county medical examiners","persons with authority over final disposition"],"clause":"[The] increase in deaths has placed a significant burden on some hospitals and funeral homes. To alleviate this burden, ensure the safe and proper handling of bodily remains, and ensure the deceased are treated with [dignity, it is necessary to modify certain rules] pertaining to the disposition of bodies, and to relax certain licensing provisions for funeral directors.... a. A health facility\u0027s or funeral director\u0027s attempts to locate a person with authority to control the final disposition of a dead human body under this section must be completed within 24 hours of [death]... [the person with authority under MCL] 700.3206(1) must exercise such authority and complete arrangements within 48 hours of death.... 3. Compliance with MCL 333.2653(2) is temporarily suspended such that an official of a public [agency need not]... [a person who died under] suspicious circumstances or otherwise died as the result of criminal activity must not be cremated... [a licensee under MCL] 339.1801 et seq., may shelter and store the remains of a dead human body at a temporary storage [facility]... 5. Medical examiners are directed to authorize cremation orders as quickly as possible... This order is effective immediately and remains in effect until lifted. Date: May 4, 2020","enforcement":"MCL 333.2261 (misdemeanor)","functions":["FH funeral homes (arrangement timelines, embalming, storage, cremation)","CB families (48-hour decision deadline)","OF administration","IP hospital morgue operations"],"notes":"The Michigan funeral-home order named in the cluster assignment.","sourceUrl":"https://www.michigan.gov/documents/coronavirus/MDHHS_epidemic_order_-_handling_of_bodily_remains_signed_689331_7.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200514/https://www.michigan.gov/documents/coronavirus/MDHHS_epidemic_order_-_handling_of_bodily_remains_signed_689331_7.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":241369,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS","url":"/library/AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-095","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-095","citation":"Robert Gordon, Director, MDHHS, Emergency Order Under MCL 333.2253 - Handling of Bodily Remains (May 4, 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-095)","stateName":"Michigan","related":["AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-094"]}