2009 Iowa Code
Title 4 - Public Health
Subtitle 2 - Health-Related Activities
CHAPTER 144 - VITAL STATISTICS
144.32 - BURIAL TRANSIT PERMIT.

        144.32  BURIAL TRANSIT PERMIT.
         If a person other than a funeral director, medical examiner, or
      emergency medical service assumes custody of a dead body or fetus,
      the person shall secure a burial transit permit.  To be valid, the
      burial transit permit must be issued by the county medical examiner,
      a funeral director, or the county registrar of the county where the
      certificate of death or fetal death was filed.  The permit shall be
      obtained prior to the removal of the body or fetus from the place of
      death and the permit shall accompany the body or fetus to the place
      of final disposition.
         To transfer a dead body or fetus outside of this state, the
      funeral director who first assumes custody of the dead body or fetus
      shall obtain a burial transit permit prior to the transfer.  The
      permit shall accompany the dead body or fetus to the place of final
      disposition.
         A dead body or fetus brought into this state for final disposition
      shall be accompanied by a burial transit permit under the law of the
      state in which the death occurred.
         A burial transit permit shall not be issued to a person other than
      a funeral director when the cause of death is or is suspected to be a
      communicable disease as defined by rule of the department.  

         93 Acts, ch 139, § 5; 97 Acts, ch 159, §20
         Referred to in § 156.2, 331.611, 331.804, 523I.309