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FULTON
COUNTY
Procedures Manual
Burial of Indigent Persons
Subject At Fulton County Expense
Statement of Policy: Fulton County shall pay for the burial of persons who are
paupers and destitute and who are residents of Fulton County
at the time of death, provided that they have an indigent status and that the next
of kin, or others, will not assume responsibility. Section 23-2304 of the Georgia
Code of 1933, as amended, shall apply as to the legal authority and obligation on
the part of the County in bearing expense for interment of the indigent. The Clerk
of the County Commission shall be responsible for preparing and maintaining a
record of information on all indigent burials and shall be responsible for approving
invoices submitted for payment by the various cemeteries. The Comptroller is
hereby authorized to pay approved invoices as submitted by the Clerk of the Commiss-
ion.
Procedure:
1. The Clerk of the County Commission shall complete Request for
Indigent Burial at Fulton County Expense form in original and one copy when the
County is called upon to bury a body. When the Clerk of the County Commission
has documented facts that the body is indigent and no other person will assume
responsibility the Clerk will prepare a requisition and attach thereto copy of Request
for Indigent Burial at Fulton County Expense and forward to the Purchasing Agent in
order that a Purchase Order may be written in favor of the cemetery where the body
is to be interred. The Clerk will maintain as a permanent record the original of
Request for Indigent Burial at Fulton County Expense.
2. The Purchase Order shall be the authority for the cemetery of interment
to bury the indigent body.
3. Upon receipt of invoice from the cemetery for services rendered, the
Clerk of the County Commission will approve same, if inorder, and forward to the
Comptroller for payment.
4. The Comptroller shall pay the cemetery of interment upon receipt of
approved invoice from the Clerk.
References: Letter, County Attorney, dated May 13, 1966
Section 23-2304 of the Georgia Code of 1933, as amended.
Date of Approval: June 15, 1966
Agencies Directly Affected: Clerk of County Commission, Comptroller,
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