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§§ 1376-al0-1376-al3. VITAL STATISTICS. Tit. VI, Ch. 11.
34 Every person, firm or corporation selling a casket at retail, and
35 not having charge of the disposition of the body shall inclose within
36 the casket a notice furnished by the state registrar, calling attention
37 to the requirements of the law, and a blank certificate of death, and
38 the rules and regulations of the state board of health concerning the
39 burial or other disposition of a dead body.
[39 G. A., ch. 222, § 9.]
NOTE: See §§ 1346-1348, 3448 of the compiled code.
SEC. 1376-alO. Permit when interment within state.
1 If the interment, or other disposition of the body is to be made
2 within the state, the wording of the burial or removal permit may be
3 limited to a statement by the registrar, and over his signature, that a
4 satisfactory certificate of death having been filed with him, as required
5 by law, permission is granted to inter, remove, or dispose otherwise
6 of the body, stating the name, age, sex, cause of death, and other
7 necessary details upon the form prescribed by the state registrar.
[39 G. A., ch. 222, § 10.]
SEC. 1376-all. Duty of cemetery caretaker—absence of caretaker.
1 No person in charge of any premises on which interments are
2 made shall inter or permit the interment or other disposition of any
3 body unless it is accompanied by a burial, removal or transit permit,
4 as herein provided. Such person shall indorse upon the permit the
5 date of interment, over his signature, and shall return all permits so
6 indorsed to the local registrar of his district within ten days from
7 the date of the interment, or within the time fixed by the local board
8 of health. He shall keep a record of all bodies interred or otherwise
9 disposed of on the premises under his charge, in each case stating the
10 name of each deceased person, place of death, date of burial or dis-
11 posai, and name and address of the undertaker; which record shall at
12 all times be open to official inspection ; provided, that undertakers or
13 persons acting as such, when burying a body in a cemetery or burial
14 ground having no person in charge, shall sign the burial or removal
15 permit, giving the date of burial, and shall write across the face of
16 the permit the words "No person in charge", and file the burial or
17 removal permit within ten days with the registrar of the district in
18 which the cemetery is located.
[39 G. A., ch. 222, § 11.]
NOTE: See §§ 3446, 3447 of the compiled code.
SEC. 1376-al2. Births.
1 The birth of each and every child born in the state shall be regis-
2 tered as hereinafter provided.
[39 G. A., ch. 222, § 12.]
SEC. 1376-al3. Certificate of birth—who must prepare—signing.
1 Within ten days after the date of each birth there shall be filed
2 with the local registrar of the district in which the birth occurred a
3 certificate of such birth, which certificate shall be upon the form
4 adopted by the state registrar with a view to procuring a full and
5 accurate report with respect to each item of information as required