The department shall pay burial expenses for persons who died while wards of the department as defined in section 5001, subsection 7, and who have no known survivors. The department may first apply to the cost of burial any funds that are available as part of a mortuary trust or any other funds of the ward remaining at the time of the ward's death that are available for this purpose.
Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 34-B, § 5205
Payment of burial expenses for state wards
PL 1989, c. 117 (NEW)
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