No person shall bury or deposit in any grave, tomb or vault,
or cremate, the body of any person dying in the Township of Morris
or of any child stillborn in this Township without a permit therefor
from the Registrar of Vital Statistics of the Township of Morris or,
if an undertaker, of the municipality wherein he maintains his official
place of business or of the municipality where the burial or cremation
is to take place if within the State of New Jersey.
No dead human body shall be disinterred or removed from any
grave, tomb or vault without a permit therefor from the Board of Health.
The Board of Health may specify any communicable disease or
diseases for the victims of which no public funeral shall be held
and prohibit such public funeral and, in case of threat or prevalence
of an epidemic, may prohibit such public funeral of persons dying
from the particular disease or diseases specified.
[Amended 10-12-1983 by Ord. No. 31-83]
A. For any search of the files and records of births, deaths or marriages
when the correct year only is supplied by the applicant, and a valid
photo ID or two other forms of valid ID are presented, the Register
of Vital Statistics for Morris Township shall be entitled to:
[Amended 12-6-1989 by Ord. No. 30-89; 11-5-2003 by Ord. No. 28-03; 5-16-2007 by Ord. No. 16-07; 7-21-2010 by Ord. No. 12-10]
(1) Search and one certified copy of vital records: $25.
(2) Additional certified copies: $5 each.
(3) Search and one certification copy (for information purposes only)
of vital records: $10.
(4) Additional certification copies (for informational purposes only):
$10 each.
B. The Morris Township Registrar shall:
(1) Furnish a certification or certified copy of a birth, marriage, fetal
death or death certificate without fee in the prosecution of any claim
for public pension or for military or naval enlistment purposes.
(2) Furnish without fee upon request for administrative use by any city,
county, state or federal agency a certification or certified copy
of a birth, death, fetal death or marriage certificate.
C. Burial permits: $5.
[Amended 7-21-2010 by Ord. No. 12-10]
D. Transit permits: $5.
[Amended 7-21-2010 by Ord. No. 12-10]
E. Marriage license: $28.
[Amended 11-5-2003 by Ord. No. 28-03]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any of the
provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished
by a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $500.