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Section 290:3 – Burial Permits, Obtaining.

    290:3 Burial Permits, Obtaining. – It shall be the duty of the funeral director, next-of-kin as defined in RSA 290:16, IV, or designated agent under RSA 290:17 to add to the death record the date and place of burial, and having certified the same by hand or other approved electronic process, to forward it […]

Section 290:3-a – Burial Permit for a Fetus.

    290:3-a Burial Permit for a Fetus. – Whenever it shall be determined that a dead fetus will be disposed of by means of burial or cremation, the burial permit will be issued in accordance with the rules and regulations of the department of health and human services. Source. 1977, 530:6. 1995, 310:181, eff. Nov. […]

Section 290:3-b – Emergency Burial Permit.

    290:3-b Emergency Burial Permit. – The division of vital records administration, department of state, may issue an emergency burial permit in an emergency as defined by RSA 5-C:70. Source. 1986, 22:2. 1992, 66:8. 1995, 310:181, 182. 1997, 325:13. 2003, 319:68. 2005, 268:9, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.

Section 290:4-a – Record of Interment Date.

    290:4-a Record of Interment Date. – In any case in which the town where the death occurred and the town of residence or burial is different, the burial permit shall indicate the actual date of interment where the dead body is stored in a tomb or vault prior to burial. Source. 1977, 324:6, eff. […]

Section 290:5 – Burial Permit Required.

    290:5 Burial Permit Required. – No interment of the dead body of a human being, nor disposition of the body in a tomb or vault, shall be made without a permit, and only in accordance with it. No disinterment, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, of the dead body of a human being […]

Section 290:6 – Return.

    290:6 Return. – It shall be the duty of every funeral director, next-of-kin as defined in RSA 290:16, IV, or designated agent under RSA 290:17, or other person having charge of a burial place, who shall receive the permit, to complete it and forward it to the town clerk within 6 days after the […]

Section 290:8 – Prerequisites.

    290:8 Prerequisites. – No such permit shall be issued until there has been delivered to the division of vital records administration a death record completed in accordance with RSA 290:1. Source. 1935, 95:1. RL 168:54. RSA 290:8. 1955, 95:1. 1979, 66:1. 1997, 325:15. 2003, 319:69, eff. July 1, 2003.