1136 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 696]

or the transportation of any dead body from any other State,
territory or District of Columbia into this State or any foreign
country into this State, shall be under such rules and regulation
as the State Board of Health shall prescribe.

Transit permits shall only be issued by application to the local
registrar or deputy local registrar upon the presentation of a
proper and complete certificate of death as provided in section
9 of this act, the same to be accompanied by a burial permit
which shall be full and legal authority for interment or other
disposition in any part of the State.

The burial permit issued as provided in this act shall be full
and legal authority for interment in any part of this State.

In the event of the death of any person without the jurisdic-
tion of the United States, or in the event of the death of a per-
son within the jurisdiction of any of the United States, where
such death is not recorded by the authorities having jurisdiction,
a burial permit may be issued by the local registrar or deputy
local registrar at the place to which such body is conveyed in
this State upon presentation of a proper and correct certificate
of death as hereinbefore provided.

SEC. 12. Application for a permit to disinter a human body
shall be made by presentation to the local registrar or deputy
local registrar of a certificate of death properly made and con-
taining the facts required by law for a record of a death. Upon
receipt of such a certificate the local registrar or deputy local
registrar shall issue a permit for the disinterment. The permit
for a disinterment shall be made upon a regular burial permit
form issued by the State registrar of vital statistics under the
provisions of this act, and across the face thereof shall be writ-
ten the word disinterment in red ink.

No disinterment of the body of any deceased person during
the months of July and August shall be issued except when
required for the purpose of a legal investigation, nor shall any
such permit be issued in case where death was caused by infec-
tious disease, except by permission and under the direction of
the State registrar of vital- statistics.

SEC. 13. Every physician who shall have professional charge
of the mother at the birth of any child shall, within four days
next succeeding the birth, furnish the local registrar or deputy
local registrar of the town or district wherein such birth shall
have taken place, a proper and correct certificate of birth as
required by section 9 of this act.

Every midwife who shall be in attendance at the birth of any
child where no physician is in attendance shall within four days