2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 7-72. Sextons\' reports. Fines.

      Sec. 7-72. Sextons' reports. Fines. (a) Each sexton having charge of any burial place shall, during the first week of each month, return a list of all interments, disinterments and removals made by such sexton during the month next preceding, with the dates thereof, to the registrar of the town and also, within said time, file with the registrar permits received by such sexton by virtue of which a body has been brought into the town from another town or state for burial, with such sexton's endorsement thereon showing when and in what cemeteries the interments took place. The registrar shall inscribe upon each certificate and each permit so received the date of its reception and record such lists and permits in books to be furnished by the Department of Public Health. When a permit has been given for the disinterment and removal of a body, the registrar shall make a memorandum on the registrar's records of such removal and the place to which such body was removed.

      (b) Any sexton who fails to make the appropriate filing of reports as required by subsection (a) of this section by the end of the third week of a month to the registrar of the town, shall be subject to a fine of not more than one hundred dollars per day.

      (1949 Rev., S. 596; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 04-255, S. 11.)

      History: P.A. 77-614 substituted department of health services for department of health, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 93-381 replaced department of health services with department of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 04-255 added Subsec. (b) re fine for failure to file reports, designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and made technical changes therein.

      See Sec. 7-45 re filing and signing of sexton's reports.

      See Sec. 7-73 re registrar's fees.