§ 5212 - Permit to remove dead bodies
§ 5212. Permit to remove dead bodies
(a) A person desirous of disinterring or removing the body of a human being from one cemetery to another cemetery or to another part of the same cemetery or from a tomb or receiving vault elsewhere shall apply to the town clerk of the town where such dead body is interred or entombed for a removal permit.
(b) An applicant for a removal permit shall publish notice of his or her intent to remove the remains. This notice shall be published for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the town in which the body is interred or entombed. The notice shall include a statement that the spouse, child, parent or sibling of the deceased may object to the proposed removal by filing a complaint in the probate court of the district in which the body is located as provided in section 5212a of this title.
(c) The town clerk shall issue a removal permit 45 days after the date on which notice was last published pursuant to subsection (b) or, if an objection is made pursuant to section 5212a, upon order of the court.
(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (b) and (c), a removal permit shall be issued upon application:
(1) when removal is necessary because of temporary entombment; or
(2) to a federal, state, county or municipal official acting pursuant to official duties; or
(3) if the applicant has written permission to remove the remains from all persons entitled to object under section 5212a of this title. (Amended 1985, No. 206 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. June 2, 1986.)