It is a Class A misdemeanor for any person who discovers an unattended dead human body, or any part of a dead human body, to fail to report the discovery immediately, by the fastest available means of communication, to the chief of police if the body, or any part of the body, is discovered in an incorporated town or city, or to the sheriff if the body, or any part of the body, is discovered in the county outside the corporate limits of any incorporated town or city.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 38-1-105
Failure to report discovery of dead body
Acts 1967, ch. 56, § 1; T.C.A., § 38-605; Acts 1989, ch. 591, §§ 1, 6.
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