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of death section of the death certificate, and shall immediately
forward such certificate in the usual manner prescribed for
death certificates. As soon as the cause of death is ascertain-
able, he shall forward to the State Board of Health or its
designated agent a report of such cause of death for entry
on such certificate.

(c) Each registrar or other person concerned with the execu-
tion of the vital statistics act shall promptly notify the Deputy
Medical Examiner of his district of any death known to come
under jurisdiction of the Department of Port-Mortem Exam-
iners, under the regulations of the said Board of Health.

(d) The physician or medical examiner executing any cer-
tificate of death shall present it within the time limit pre-
scribed in Sub-sections (a) and (b) of this section to the
funeral director or other person authorized to make disposi-
tion of the corpse.

(e) A funeral director or other person acting as such who,
pursuant to this section, obtains a certificate of death shall
be required to file such certificate with the local registrar or
deputy local registrar within seventy-two (72) hours after
said death.

(f) No person whose duty it is to make out and sign a cer-
tificate of death shall execute more than one such certificate
per death except as authorized under the provisions of this
sub-title.

19. (Burial Permits, Interments, Transportation and Dis-
interment. )

(a) No interment of the dead body of any human being or
the disposition thereof by entombment, cremation, transporta-
tion, dissection, or any other manner or form of disposition
shall be made without a permit as aforesaid from the local
registrar or deputy local registrar of the district where the
aforesaid person died, or otherwise than in accordance with
such permit.

(b) The transportation of bodies of deceased persons be-
tween districts or counties of Maryland or into or out of the
State shall be under such rules and regulations as the State
Board of Health shall prescribe.

(c) No sexton or person in charge of any cemetery or crema-
tory, or other place for disposal of the dead shall inter or
permit the interment or other disposition of any body unless
it is accompanied by a burial permit as provided in this sub-
title. Each sexton or person in charge of any burial ground
shall endorse upon the permit the date of interment or other
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