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from the local registrar or deputy local registrar of the district where said
person died, or otherwise than in accordance with such permit.

The certificate of death shall he filled out and signed by the physician
last in attendance upon the deceased person within 24 hours after death,
excepting in such cases where the body is viewed hy the coroner and an
inquest is held upon the same, in which case the certificate of death shall
he filled out and signed hy the coroner. In case of death without medical
attendance or in case of sudden or violent death in which the coroner does
not deem it necessary to hold an inquest, the certificate of death shall he
executed and signed by the local registrar or deputy local registrar from the
best information available, and all such certificates of death shall be pre-
sented to the undertaker or other person authorized to make disposition
of the body. No person whose duty it is under the provisions of this sub-
title to make out and sign a certificate of death shall make out and sign
more than one certificate of death, except those authorized to do so under
the provisions of this sub-title. In all cases of death from smallpox, yellow
fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever or other contagious or infectious disease
dangerous to public health, the interment shall be conducted according to
the rules of the State Board of Health.

The transportation of the body of any diseased person from one district
to another district, or from one County into another County, or from this
State into any other State, Territory or District of Columbia, or from
this State to any foreign country, 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 regu-
lations 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 19 of this Article, or an applica-
tion for a disinterment permit, as provided in Section 22 of this Article.
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 sub-title 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 jurisdiction of the
United States, or in the event of the death of a person within the jurisdic-
tion 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 con-
veyed in this State upon presentation of a proper and correct certificate
of death as hereinbefore provided.

This section referred to in upholding the validity of sec. 360—see notes thereto.
Keiningham v. Blake, 135 d. 321.
See sec. 54, et seq.

An. Code, sec. 13. 1904, sec. 12. 1898, ch. 312, sec. 6F. 1912, ch. 696, sec. 12.
1914, ch. 747, sec. 12. 1920, ch. 317, sec. 13.

22. Application for a permit to disinter a human body shall be made
to the local registrar or deputy local registrar on the form prescribed by the