ART. 43] REGISTBAR OF VITAL STATISTICS. 645

out and deliver to the undertaker, sexton or other person in charge of
the interment, removal or other disposition of the body, the certificate
of death, hereinbefore provided for, shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than
five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. And if any physician shall
knowingly make a false certification of the cause of death in any case
he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction there-
of shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred
dollars.

And any physician or midwife in attendance upon a case of confine-
ment, or any other person charged with responsibility for reporting
births, in the order named in sections 14 and 15, who shall neglect or
refuse to file a proper certificate of birth with the local or deputy local
registrar within the time required by this sub-title, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not
less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars.

And any undertaker, sexton or other person acting as undertaker,
who shall inter, remove or otherwise dispose of the body of any deceased
person, without having received a burial removal permit as herein-
before provided, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than one
hundred dollars.

And any county registrar, local registrar, deputy local registrar who
shall neglect or fail to enforce the provisions of this sub-title in his
district, or shall neglect or refuse to perform any of the duties imposed
upon him by this sub-title, or by the rules and regulations of the
State Board of Health, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor
more than one hundred dollars.

And any person who shall wilfully alter any certificate of birth or
death, or the copy of any certificate of birth or death, on file in the
office of the State Registrar, or any county registrar, local registrar or
deputy local registrar shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor
more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county j ail not
exceeding sixty days, or suffer both fine and imprisonment, in the dis-
cretion of the Court.

And any person or persons who shall violate any of the provisions
of this sub-title, or who shall wilfully neglect or refuse to perform any
duties imposed upon them by the provisions of this sub-title, or shall
furnish false information to a physician, undertaker, midwife, or in-
formant for the purpose of making incorrect certification of births or
deaths, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than one hun-
dred dollars.

And any transportation company or common carrier transporting or
carrying, or accepting through its agents or employee for transporta-