A.
Every undertaker or other person who may have charge of the funeral
of any dead person shall procure a properly filled out certificate
of death, and its probable cause, in accordance with the form prescribed
by the State Department of Health, and shall present the same to the
City Clerk and obtain a burial or transit permit thereupon at least
24 hours before the time appointed for such funeral, and he shall
not remove any dead body until such burial or transit permit shall
have been procured.
B.
A violation of any of the provisions of this section shall subject
the offending party to a penalty of $10 for each offense, and such
violation shall constitute disorderly conduct and the person violating
the same shall be a disorderly person.
A.
No person shall be buried in any cemetery or other place of burial
within the limits of the jurisdiction of this Board unless the undertaker
or person in charge of the corpse has first obtained a burial permit
as provided by law, which permit must be taken with the corpse to
the place of burial and delivered to the keeper of the cemetery, sexton
or other person in charge of the same.
B.
A violation of any of the provisions of this section shall subject
the offending party to a penalty of $10 for each offense, and such
violation shall constitute disorderly conduct and the person violating
the same shall be a disorderly person.
A.
No keeper of any cemetery, sexton or other person shall inter or
permit the interment of any corpse at any place of burial within the
limits of the jurisdiction of this Board until the burial permit required
by law is presented to him, which permit shall be retained by him,
and he shall deliver the same to the City Clerk on or before the 15th
day of the following month.
B.
A violation of any of the provisions of this section shall subject
the offending party to a penalty of $10 for each offense, and such
violation shall constitute disorderly conduct and the person violating
the same shall be a disorderly person.
Upon the decease of any person within the limits of the jurisdiction
of this Board, it shall be the duty of the City Clerk to issue to
the person or persons having charge of the body of the deceased a
burial permit of the form prescribed by the State Department of Health,
such permit to be issued upon a physician's certificate of the
cause of death, or upon the inquisition of a coroner. In case no physician's
certificate can be obtained and no inquest shall have been held, such
permit may be granted upon affidavit duly verified by some person
or persons known to the officers granting such permit, stating the
circumstances, time and cause of death as nearly as the same can be
ascertained. Such certificate of death must be presented and the burial
permit issued at least 12 hours before the appointed time for the
funeral or removal of the corpse. This regulation shall also apply
to stillbirths.
A.
The body of any person who dies within the limits of the jurisdiction
of this Board shall not be removed beyond the limits of this county,
nor shall any corpse from another county be transported across or
brought within the limits of the jurisdiction of this Board for burial
unless the undertaker or person in charge has obtained and has in
his possession the transit permit required by law.
B.
A violation of any of the provisions of this section shall subject
the offending party to a penalty of $10 for each offense, and such
violation shall constitute disorderly conduct and the person violating
the same shall be a disorderly person.
A.
No express company, common carrier or railroad corporation or any
other person or persons or corporations whatsoever shall be concerned
in the removal of any deceased person from the limits of the jurisdiction
of this Board within the limits of the County of Warren, or bring
from any other county to or within or transport across the limits
of the jurisdiction of this Board any corpse unless a transit permit
shall have been presented to them at the time of the delivery of the
corpse, which permit shall be used in accordance with the printed
instruction thereon.
B.
A violation of any of the provisions of this section shall subject
the offending party to a penalty of $10 for each offense, and such
violation shall constitute disorderly conduct and the person violating
the same shall be a disorderly person.
Transit permits shall be issued by the City Clerk for presentation
of the same requisites as are necessary to obtain burial permits.
A.
In the case of those who died of smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever,
yellow fever, cholera, measles or typhus, the corpse shall be wrapped
in strong disinfectants until buried, and no transportation of the
same will be permitted beyond the nearest appropriate place for burial
unless enclosed in a sealed metallic or lead-lined coffin.
B.
A violation of any of the provisions of this section shall subject
the offending party to a penalty of $25 for each offense, and such
violation shall constitute disorderly conduct and the person violating
the same shall be a disorderly person.
A.
Every person who acts as sexton or undertaker or cemetery keeper
within the limits of the jurisdiction of this Board, or who has the
charge or care of any tomb, vault, burying ground or other place for
the reception of the dead or where the bodies of any human beings
are deposited shall so conduct his business and so care for any such
place above named as to avoid detriment or danger to public health;
and every person undertaking preparations for burial of a body dead
from contagious or infectious disease, as hereinbefore enumerated,
shall adopt such precautions as the Board of Health may prescribe
to prevent the spread of such disease.
B.
A violation of any of the provisions of this section shall subject
the offending party to a penalty of $25 for each offense, and such
violation shall constitute disorderly conduct and the person violating
the same shall be a disorderly person.
The Health Officer is directed and empowered to execute and
enforce all sanitary regulations of general obligation now or hereafter
to be published by this Board; also to enter upon or within any premises
where conditions dangerous to the public health are known or believed
to exist and to examine into the nature of complaints made by any
of the inhabitants concerning sources of danger or injury to health;
and he shall preserve accurate records of his official action and
report the same to the Board of Health at its next meeting. And whenever,
in his judgment, danger to the public health shall arise requiring
special regulation not of general application, he shall forthwith
notify the Mayor, who shall thereupon convene the Board to take such
action as may be necessary and proper.
