2009 Connecticut Code
Title 7 Municipalities
Chapter 93 Registrars Of Vital Statistics
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 preceding month to the registrar of the town. The list shall be in a format prescribed by the Commissioner of Public Health. The sexton shall also file during the first week of each month, completed burial permits received by such sexton in the preceding month. The registrar shall inscribe upon each certificate and each permit received the date of its reception and record such lists and permits in a log. 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; P.A. 08-184, S. 2.)

      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; P.A. 08-184 amended Subsec. (a) by requiring that lists provided by sexton to registrar be in a format prescribed by Commissioner of Public Health and that sexton file with registrar completed burial reports received in the preceding month and by making technical changes.

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

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