§38-8-2. Burial of persons dying with no estate, etc.

Upon the decease of any person having no estate and leaving no relatives in the county with the ability or estate adequate to defray his necessary burial expenses, such necessary burial expenses are a charge upon the county in which such death shall take place, and the county commission, upon the presentation of the account of such burial expenses shall make payment therefor.

(Code 1867, §§1466, 1467; Code 1876, §§1747, 1748; Code 1886, §§1472, 1473; Code 1896, §§3240, 3241; Code 1907, §§1612, 1613; Code 1923, §§2790, 2801, 2802; Code 1940, T. 44, §§15, 16.)