Section 34-27-3 - Reinterment required where crypt or catacomb not properly sealed.
34-27-3. Reinterment required where crypt or catacomb not properly sealed. Should any person fail to hermetically seal any such crypt or catacomb and by reason of such failure any offensive odor or effluvia shall arise therefrom, the Department of Health or any health officer shall upon the complaint of any resident of the township or first or second class municipality where such mausoleum, vault, or other burial structure may be situated, compel the sexton or other person in charge of such burial structure immediately to remove the deceased body or bodies therefrom and properly inter the same at the expense of the person owning such burial structure; and if no such person can be found in the county where the same may be located, such interment shall be at the expense of the county where such burial structure may be situated.
Source: SL 1915, ch 248, § 3; RC 1919, § 7789; SDC 1939, § 27.1308; SL 1992, ch 60, § 2.