Sec. 7-68. Issuance of disinterment or removal permit.
Sec. 7-68. Issuance of disinterment or removal permit. On receipt by the registrar of vital statistics of any town of a certificate of death containing the facts required
by section 7-65 for a permit for burial, or when it appears that such certificate is already
a matter of record, or that the original burial permit, by virtue of which the body of any
deceased person was brought into such town, is on file or recorded in such registrar's
office, the registrar, upon request, shall issue a permit for the disinterment or removal
of such body to a licensed funeral director or embalmer or to an individual designated
on an order from a judge of the Superior Court or judge of probate, as provided in section
19a-413, stating therein the locality of the interment, disinterment or removal; but no
permit for the disinterment of the body of any deceased person shall be issued in any
case where death was caused by a communicable disease, except by the permission and
under the direction of the town director of health.
(1949 Rev., S. 592; P.A. 79-434, S. 10; P.A. 04-255, S. 9; P.A. 05-272, S. 13.)
History: P.A. 79-434 deleted reference to funeral director's certificate; P.A. 04-255 specified that the disinterment or
removal permit be issued to responsible funeral director or embalmer or to individual designated in court order; P.A. 05-272 deleted reference to issuance of disinterment or removal permit to the responsible funeral director or embalmer listed
on the death certificate or burial permit and authorized issuance of permit on order of a probate judge, effective July 13, 2005.