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Violating Sepulture, etc.
PENAL CODE.
§§ 7183-7189

3. To any person by reason of any former marriage which has been pronounced void, annulled or dissolved by the judgment of a competent court; nor,

4. To any person by reason of any former marriage with a husband or wife who has been sentenced to in prisonment for life.

§ 7183 Punishment for bigamy. Every person guilty of bigamy is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one and not exceeding five years.

§ 7184. Unlawful marriages defined. Every person who knowingly marries the husband or wife of another, in any case in which such husband or wife would be punishable according to the foregoing provisions, is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one and not exceeding five years, or in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

§ 7185. Incest defined. Persons who, being within the degrees of consanguinity within which marriages are, by the laws of this state, declared incestuous and void, intermarry, cohabit or have sexual intercourse with such other so related person, knowing him or her to be within said degree of relationship shall be deemed guilty of incest, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one and not exceeding ten years.

§ 7186. Sodomy defined. Every person who carnally knows in any manner any animal or bird; or carnally knows any male or female person by the anus or by or with the mouth; or voluntarily submits to such carnal knowledge; or attempts sexual intercourse with a dead body, is guilty of sodomy and is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one and not exceeding ten years or in the county jail not more than one year.

§ 7187. When crime complete. Any sexual penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete the crime specified in the last section.

CHAPTER 33.

VIOLATING SEPULTURE AND THE REMAINS OF THE DEAD.

§ 7188. Right to dispose of one's own body. Every person has the right to direct the manner in which his body shall be disposed of after his death, and to direct the manner in which any part of his body which becomes separated therefrom during his lifetime shall be disposed of. The provisions of this chapter do not apply where such person has given directions for the disposal of his body or any part thereof inconsistent with these provisions.

§ 7189. Duty of burial. Except in the cases in which a right to dissect a dead body is expressly conferred by law, every dead body of a human being lying within this state must be decently buried within a reasonable time after the death.1273