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2006 South Dakota Code - 27 — Cemeteries And Burial Records
- 34-27-1 — Department of Health approval required for mausoleum construction plans.
- 34-27-2 — Crypts and catacombs constructed to permit examination--Hermetical sealing.
- 34-27-3 — Reinterment required where crypt or catacomb not properly sealed.
- 34-27-4 — Violation as to mausoleum construction as misdemeanor.
- 34-27-5 — Racial discrimination in cemetery as petty offense--Restrictive covenants void--Immunity from liability for damages.
- 34-27-6 — Burial record book required of cemetery--Indexes--Ownership records--Officialinspection.
- 34-27-7 — Purpose of requirements as to cemetery plats.
- 34-27-8 — Subdivision and platting of cemeteries required--Filing with local registrar of vitalrecords.
- 34-27-9 — Numbering of grave spaces on cemetery plat--Designation of veterans' burials--Marking of burials.
- 34-27-10 — Cemetery plats received by local registrar--Posting when burial permit issued.
- 34-27-11 — Card-index records of burials maintained by local registrar--Contents.
- 34-27-12 — Supervision of burial record system by Department of Health--Enforcement powers.
- 34-27-13 — Filing by local registrars of data from graves registration survey project--Fees notreceivable.
- 34-27-14 — Violation or failure to maintain records as misdemeanor.
- 34-27-15 — Duty of reinterment when cemetery removed--Punishment for omission of duty.
- 34-27-16 — Liability for expense of reinterment on removal of cemetery.
- 34-27-17 — Punishment for omission to reinter when cemetery removed.
- 34-27-18 — Opening grave or breaking building with intent to remove body or coffin asmisdemeanor.
- 34-27-19 — Removing dead body maliciously or with intent to sell or dissect as misdemeanor.
- 34-27-20 — Receiving dead body unlawfully removed as misdemeanor.
- 34-27-21 — Definition of terms.
- 34-27-22 — Buying, selling, or bartering human skeletal remains or funerary objects as felony.
- 34-27-23 — Repealed.
- 34-27-24 — Commercial display of human skeletal remains or funerary objects as felony.
- 34-27-25 — Reporting discovery of human skeletal remains--Failure to report as misdemeanor.
- 34-27-26 — Disturbing human skeletal remains or funerary objects as felony.
- 34-27-27 — Repealed.
- 34-27-28 — Notification to landowner and coroner--Notification to state archaeologist and tribalofficials--Time limits.
- 34-27-29 — Repealed.
- 34-27-30 — Rules promulgated by State Historical Society Board of Trustees.
- 34-27-31 — Discovery of human remains or funerary objects by state educational institution ormuseum--Contact state archaeologist--Notice to tribal officials--Tribal request--Disposition of remains or objects.
- 34-27-32 — Refusal to turn over remains or objects to tribal group--Appeal.
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