2016 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being
Chapter 368j - Cemeteries
Section 19a-315d - Places and manner of burial. Exceptions. Penalty.
(a) No person shall bury the body of any deceased person less than three hundred fifty feet from any residential dwelling unless a public highway intervenes between such place of burial and such dwelling, or unless such body is encased in a burial vault made of concrete or other impermeable material, except (1) in a cemetery established on or before November 1, 1911, (2) in a cemetery that, when established, was more than three hundred fifty feet from any dwelling house, or (3) with the written approval of the Commissioner of Public Health, in a plot of land adjacent to a cemetery, as described in subdivision (1) or (2) of this subsection that has been made a part of either cemetery. Such written approval shall contain a detailed description of the land adjacent to the cemetery and shall be recorded in the land records of the town in which the cemetery is located.
(b) No person shall bury the body of any deceased person in such a manner that the top of the outside container within which such body is placed is less than two and one-half feet below the surface of the ground, except if such container is made of concrete or other impermeable material, the top of such container shall not be less than one and one-half feet below the surface.
(c) Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars for each day such person is in violation of the provisions of this section.
(P.A. 14-231, S. 6.)
