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2015 Delaware Code
Title 16 - Health and Safety
CHAPTER 31. REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, DIVORCES, ANNULMENTS AND ADOPTIONS
Subchapter III Burial, Removal or Cremation of Dead Bodies
- § 3151 Permit for removal, burial or other disposition; foreign permits; prerequisites for permit.
- § 3152 Burial/transit permits for shipment of corpses — Required.
- § 3153 Disinterment — Rules and regulations.
- § 3154 Authorization for disinterment and reinterment.
- § 3155 Permits for disinterment of bodies buried in Kent or Sussex County before January 1, 1893.
- § 3156 Disinterment from condemned land.
- § 3157 Cremation; prohibited except in licensed crematory.
- § 3158 Crematory; approval for construction; requirements; inspection.
- § 3159 Permit for cremation; issuance, retention and inspection.
- § 3160 Report of cremation.
- § 3161 Delivery, transportation and disposal of ashes.
- § 3162 Witnesses at cremation.
- § 3163 Permit where death occurs in this State and cremation takes place elsewhere.
- § 3164 Cremation in this State when death occurred elsewhere.
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