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2009 Connecticut Code
Title 7 Municipalities
Chapter 93 Registrars Of Vital Statistics
Sec. 7-67. Disinterment permit required.
Sec. 7-67. Disinterment permit required. No person shall open any grave for the
disinterment of the body of any person in any cemetery or burial place or disinter or
remove any dead body from the town in which the death took place, without having
procured from the registrar a permit therefor, or an order from a Superior Court judge
as provided in section 19a-413.(1949 Rev., S. 591; 1969, P.A. 699, S. 21.)
History: 1969 act added provision concerning court orders.
See Sec. 19a-324 re penalty for failure to obtain permit or for making false statements in procuring permit.
See Sec. 53-334 re penalty for unlawful disinterment.
See Sec. 54-50 re reward for information concerning unlawful disinterment of corpse.
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