[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Yeadon 12-7-1995 by Ord. No. 1245 as Ch. 1066 of the 1995 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The establishment or use for purposes of interment of any new cemetery or burying ground in addition to those now existing (July 22, 1895) within the limits of the Borough is hereby prohibited.
The enlargement of existing (July 22, 1895) cemeteries and burying grounds within the Borough by adding thereto, and the use, for purposes of interment, of ground not now owned by the owners of such cemeteries and burying grounds, are hereby prohibited.
A. 
The interment of any human body in any place within the Borough except in ground now (July 22, 1895) used as a cemetery or burying ground or without the requirements of the Board of Health having been complied with is hereby declared to be a nuisance and is prohibited.
B. 
The depths of all graves shall be such that all interments shall be to such a depth that the top of every case, in which the coffin is placed, shall be at least six feet below the surface of the ground.
C. 
No undertaker or other person shall bring or cause to be brought into the Borough, in order that the same may be buried therein, or bury or cause to be buried in any ground within the limits of the Borough, the body of any deceased human being without in each case giving or causing to be given to the Health Officer or Code Enforcement Officer of the Borough, or to his or her duly authorized deputy, information (accompanied by the exhibition of a proper death certificate or other satisfactory proof), showing, to the extent possible, the name, sex, color, probable age, place of last residence and disease or cause of death of the decedent, and also where the funeral is to take place from, and obtaining a permit for the burial of such body. The fee to be paid to such Secretary or deputy before the issuance of such permit shall be $50.
D. 
If it should appear from such information or from any other source that the decedent has died of any communicable disease, such fact shall be reported to the Board of Health of the Borough before a permit for the burial is issued, and the Board of Health may prescribe and enforce such regulations and precautions to be observed in making the interment as it deems necessary for the preservation of the public health. If, in the judgment of the Board, the public health would be endangered by allowing the body to be brought into the Borough and interred, the Board may refuse the permit and prohibit the body being brought into or interred within the Borough.
E. 
No person shall bring into the Borough or inter in the Borough a human body or the remains of a human body which have been disinterred or removed from any grave or place of interment without first applying for and receiving permission therefor from the Board of Health. When such permission has been granted, the precautions and conditions which the Board shall specially prescribe shall be observed and the fee which the Board shall specially fix shall first be paid.
F. 
The cemetery companies, superintendents and individuals who now do or hereafter shall control or have charge of any ground which is now or which shall hereafter be used for burial purposes, and which lies within the limits of the Borough, shall not permit any interment or deposit of any dead human body in or upon such ground until a burial permit for such interment or deposit, issued as above provided for, has been exhibited in each case to such company, superintendent or individual.
G. 
In cases where burial permits under the provisions of this section are taken out it shall not be necessary for any other burial permit from the Board of Health of the Borough to be taken out by any cemetery company, superintendent or individual.
H. 
In all cases where burial permits have been issued in the district wherein a deceased person expired within the county it shall be necessary, in order to entitle such deceased person interment within the corporate limits of the Borough, for such burial permit to be exhibited to the Secretary of the Board of Health of the Borough or his or her duly authorized deputy before the interment takes place. Such Secretary or deputy shall inspect the same, make a record thereof as prescribed in cases of other interments, and endorse or stamp on the face thereof the word "registered" with the signature of the Secretary or the deputy and the date of such registration, for which inspection, registration, endorsement and stamping, however, no charge shall be made. However, before registering and endorsing any such permit the Secretary or deputy shall be entitled to satisfy himself or herself of the genuineness and legality of such permit as regards the proposed interment.
A. 
Disinterments may only be made between October 1 and May 31.
B. 
All disinterments shall be made during daylight, and no superintendent of a burial ground shall allow any dead body to be removed from, or interred in, such ground between sunset and sunrise.
C. 
Bodies may be disinterred and removed from grave to grave, in the same cemetery, between June 1 and October 1, provided that permits are obtained therefor.
D. 
In all cases of disinterment the remains shall not be exposed to view without a special permit from the Board of Health.
E. 
All permits for disinterments from vaults or graves shall become void unless they are used within 72 hours after the date of their issue.
Whoever violates any of the provisions of this chapter shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 10 days in the Borough lockup or not more than 30 days in the county jail or workhouse, or both such fine and imprisonment. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation or noncompliance occurs or continues.