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Md. Code Ann., Health-Gen. § 5-512

(a) A practitioner or an operator of a crematory or reduction facility may not require an authorizing agent to obtain appointment as personal representative of the decedent’s estate as a condition precedent to making final arrangements or authorizing cremation, alkaline hydrolysis, or natural organic reduction of a decedent.

(b) A person may not authorize cremation, alkaline hydrolysis, or natural organic reduction when a decedent has left instructions in a document that the decedent does not wish to be cremated or be subject to alkaline hydrolysis or natural organic reduction.

Official source: Maryland General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Maryland statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.