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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 9

(d) The physician or medical examiner executing any
certificate of death shall present it within the time limit
prescribed in subsections (a) and (b) of this section to the
MORTICIAN, funeral director, or other person authorized to
make disposition of the corpse.

(f) A MORTICIAN, funeral director, or other person
acting as [such] A MORTICIAN OR FUNERAL DIRECTOR who,
pursuant to this section, obtains a certificate of death
shall be required to file such certificate with the State
Board of Health and Mental Hygiene within seventy-two (72)
hours after said death.

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(b) The MORTICIAN, funeral director, or person acting
as [such] A MORTICIAN OR FUNERAL DIRECTOR who first assumes
custody of a fetus shall file the fetal death certificate.
In the absence of such a person, the physician or midwife,
or other person in attendance at or after the delivery shall
file the certificate of fetal death. He shall obtain the
personal data from the next of kin or the best qualified
person or source available. He shall obtain the medical
certification of cause of death from the person responsible
therefor.

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(a)  The MORTICIAN, funeral director, or person acting
as [such] A MORTICIAN OR FUNERAL DIRECTOR who first assumes
custody of a dead body or fetus shall obtain a
burial-transit permit prior to final disposition or removal
from the State of the body or fetus within seventy-two (72)
hours after death. If the death certificate has been
completed on a multicopy form, one part of which has been
specifically designated as a "burial-transit" permit, and
signed by the attending physician or medical examiner, such
copy shall provide for subsequent entry of burial data and
will serve as an automatic burial-transit permit.

(b)  No person in charge of any cemetery or crematory
or other place for the disposal of the dead shall inter or
permit the interment or other disposition of any dead body
or fetus unless it is accompanied by a burial-transit
permit. Each sexton or person in charge of any cemetery or
crematory shall endorse upon the permit the date of
interment or other disposition over his signature and shall
return all permits to the State Board of Health and Mental
Hygiene within ten (10) days after the date of interment or
other disposition. Where there is no cemetery authority the
MORTICIAN OR funeral director shall endorse the
burial-transit permit.

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