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2018 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 26 - HEALTH AND VITAL STATISTICS
Chapter 6
- Section 26:6-1 - Definitions.
- Section 26:6-2 - Power of local board
- Section 26:6-3 - Prohibition of public funerals; penalty
- Section 26:6-4 - Computation of death rate.
- Section 26:6-4.1 - Certificate of death
- Section 26:6-4.2 - Undertaker to make inquiry, report, penalty for failure to report
- Section 26:6-5 - Cemeteries dangerous to public health; action for relief; costs
- Section 26:6-5.1 - Necessity of death certificate and burial or removal permit
- Section 26:6-5.2 - Recording of deaths
- Section 26:6-5.3 - Certifying deaths
- Section 26:6-5.4 - Fees
- Section 26:6-6 - Execution of death certificate.
- Section 26:6-7 - Contents of death certificate.
- Section 26:6-8 - Duty to furnish particulars; verification.
- Section 26:6-8.1 - Determination, pronouncement of death by registered professional nurse.
- Section 26:6-8.2 - Notification
- Section 26:6-8.3 - List of contagious, infectious, communicable diseases
- Section 26:6-8.4 - Penalty for violation
- Section 26:6-8.5 - Alzheimer's disease, related disorders, listing as secondary cause of death.
- Section 26:6-8.6 - Professionals certifying death to provide testing, related actions necessary for survivors to claim certain benefits.
- Section 26:6-9 - Death occurring without medical attendance.
- Section 26:6-10 - Unavailability of attending physician.
- Section 26:6-11 - Fetal death; certificate; burial or removal permit
- Section 26:6-13 - Incomplete certificate of death
- Section 26:6-14 - Issuance of burial, removal permit; correction of death certificate; completion.
- Section 26:6-16 - Contents of burial, removal permit.
- Section 26:6-17 - Fee for burial, removal or transit permit.
- Section 26:6-20 - Burial in district other than place of death
- Section 26:6-21 - Emergency burial or removal permit
- Section 26:6-22 - Form of emergency permit
- Section 26:6-23 - Transportation of certain bodies in sealed casket; license
- Section 26:6-24 - Rules for transportation of body
- Section 26:6-25 - Necessity of transit permit
- Section 26:6-26 - Contents of transit permit
- Section 26:6-27 - Disposition of transit permit
- Section 26:6-28 - Burial or removal permit for imported bodies
- Section 26:6-29 - Acceptance for shipment
- Section 26:6-31 - Delivery of burial or removal papers
- Section 26:6-32 - Require compliance with laws
- Section 26:6-33 - Indorsement and return of burial or removal papers
- Section 26:6-34 - Record of burial
- Section 26:6-35 - Procedure when no person in charge of cemetery
- Section 26:6-36 - Depth of burials; bodies in private vaults
- Section 26:6-37 - Disinterments; when allowed; permits
- Section 26:6-38 - Disinterment of bodies of persons dying of communicable disease
- Section 26:6-39 - Bodies in receiving vaults
- Section 26:6-40 - Powers of municipal authorities and local board
- Section 26:6-41 - Violations; punishment
- Section 26:6-49 - Amount; recovery
- Section 26:6-50 - Persons who may consent to examination.
- Section 26:6-58.4 - Findings, declarations
- Section 26:6-58.5 - Transplant recovery technician's recovery of human body part.
- Section 26:6-58.6 - Medical record reviews by procurement organization
- Section 26:6-60.2 - Maintenance of records by hospital relative to anatomical gifts.
- Section 26:6-66 - Short title.
- Section 26:6-67 - Findings, declarations relative to organ and tissue donation initiatives.
- Section 26:6-68 - Short title.
- Section 26:6-69 - Standards for anatomical research recovery organization.
- Section 26:6-70 - Definitions relative to anatomical gifts for educational and research use.
- Section 26:6-71 - Registration as anatomical research recovery organization.
- Section 26:6-72 - Requirements for operating as an anatomical research recovery organization.
- Section 26:6-73 - Violation.
- Section 26:6-74 - Powers of commissioner relative to violations.
- Section 26:6-75 - Violations, penalties.
- Section 26:6-76 - Rules, regulations.
- Section 26:6-77 - Short title.
- Section 26:6-78 - Definitions relative to anatomical gifts.
- Section 26:6-79 - Applicability of act.
- Section 26:6-80 - Anatomical gift by living donor.
- Section 26:6-81 - Procedure for donor to make anatomical gift.
- Section 26:6-82 - Amendment, revocation of anatomical gift by donor.
- Section 26:6-83 - Refusal to make anatomical gift.
- Section 26:6-84 - Person other than donor prohibited from making anatomical gift, exceptions.
- Section 26:6-85 - Person authorized to make anatomical gift of a decedent's body.
- Section 26:6-86 - Recipients of anatomical gift.
- Section 26:6-86.1 - Findings, declarations relative to anatomical gifts.
- Section 26:6-86.2 - Eligibility to receive anatomical gift.
- Section 26:6-87 - Search for potential donor, document of refusal; permitted entities.
- Section 26:6-88 - Delivery of document of gift or a refusal.
- Section 26:6-89 - Notification by hospital relative to donor status.
- Section 26:6-90 - Notification of death to procurement organization.
- Section 26:6-91 - Immunity from liability.
- Section 26:6-92 - Valid document of gift.
- Section 26:6-93 - Requirements relative to donations from individuals having an advance directive.
- Section 26:6-94 - Cooperation of medical examiner with procurement organization.
- Section 26:6-95 - Application, construction.
- Section 26:6-96 - Acts modified, limited, superseded.
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