Title 26, HEALTH AND VITAL STATISTICS

26:5D-4. SIDS Resource Center The Commissioner of the Department of Health shall establish a "SIDS Resource Center" within a State medical school. The SIDS Resource Center shall, in coordination with the Department of Health, serve as a technical advisory center and may offer dia…

26:6-1 Definitions. 26:6-1. As used in this chapter: "Local registrar" or "registrar" means the local registrar of vital statistics. "State registrar" means the State Registrar of Vital Statistics. "Registration district" or "district" means the district established by law for th…

26:6-10 Unavailability of attending physician, advanced practice nurse. 26:6-10. In case the physician or the advanced practice nurse who last attended the deceased is unavailable, so that a certificate of death cannot be obtained from the physician or nurse in time for burial or…

26:6-11 Certificate of fetal death. 26:6-11. A certificate of fetal death containing such items as shall be listed on fetal death certificate forms provided or approved by the department under the authority of subsection c. of R.S.26:8-24, and a burial or removal permit, shall be…

26:6-13. Incomplete certificate of death No certificate of death shall be held to be complete and correct that does not supply all of the items of information called for therein, or satisfactorily account for their omission.

26:6-14 Issuance of burial, removal permit; correction of death certificate; completion. 26:6-14. Upon receipt of a death certificate, the local registrar shall: a. If the certificate is properly executed and complete, issue a burial or removal permit when requested; and b. If th…

26:6-16 Contents of burial, removal permit. 26:6-16. The burial or removal permit shall be issued upon a form or through the NJ-EDRS as prescribed by the department, signed or authenticated through the NJ-EDRS by the local registrar, and shall state: a. The name, age, sex, cause …

26:6-17 Fee for burial, removal or transit permit. 26:6-17. The State registrar shall be entitled to receive a fee of $5 for each burial or removal, or transit permit issued; except that, on or after the effective date of P.L.2007, c.98 but before the first day of the thirty-seve…

26:6-2. Power of local board The local board shall have power to pass, alter or amend ordinances and make rules and regulations within its jurisdiction to regulate the burial and disinterment of human bodies.

26:6-20. Burial in district other than place of death No burial permit shall be required from the local registrar of the district in which a burial is to be made, when a body is removed upon a proper removal permit from one district to another district in this state, for purpose …

26:6-21. Emergency burial or removal permit 26:6-21. If through the absence of the local registrar, or for other sufficient reason, it is impossible to obtain from the registrar a burial or removal permit in time for burial or removal, a judge of the Superior Court or of a munici…

26:6-22. Form of emergency permit 26:6-22. The emergency burial or removal permit shall be issued in the following form: "It being impossible to obtain a burial or removal permit from the registrar of vital statistics on account of (state here the reason), I, a judge of the Super…

26:6-23. Transportation of certain bodies in sealed casket; license No person shall convey or aid in conveying to a common carrier to be transported across or within this state, nor shall a common carrier accept for transportation or transport across or within this state, the dea…

26:6-24. Rules for transportation of body The State Department may make any rule prescribing the manner in which a dead body, intended to be transported by any common carrier across or within this State, shall be disinfected, embalmed, or incased. Any such rule shall be referred …

26:6-25. Necessity of transit permit No person shall ship or receive for shipment within this state or to any point outside the state, by any common carrier, a dead body until a transit permit has been issued by the local registrar of the district in which the death occurred.

26:6-26. Contents of transit permit The transit permit shall be issued upon a form prescribed by the State Department, signed by the local registrar, and shall set forth: a. That the body has been prepared for transportation in every particular as required by law and the rules of…

26:6-27. Disposition of transit permit The funeral director shall attach such portion of the transit permit as is directed thereon to the box containing the corpse when shipped by any transportation company. The remaining portion of the transit permit shall be delivered to the pa…

26:6-28. Burial or removal permit for imported bodies When a dead body is transported from outside this state into the state for burial or other final disposition, the transit or removal permit, issued in accordance with the law and health regulations of the place where the death…

26:6-29. Acceptance for shipment If no such permit shall be brought with the body, or if the body be shipped by express and no permit is attached to the box in which the body is incased, then any common carrier may refuse to transport or to receive for transportation any such bod…

26:6-3. Prohibition of public funerals; penalty The local board may specify any communicable disease or diseases in case of death from which no public funeral shall be had, and prohibit such public funeral under a penalty to be imposed, not to exceed fifty dollars, and in case of…

26:6-31. Delivery of burial or removal papers The funeral director shall deliver the burial or removal permit or the detachable portion of the transit permit, if any, to the person in charge or the place of burial or of final disposition before interring or otherwise disposing of…

26:6-32. Require compliance with laws The person in charge of any premises on which an interment is to be made shall see that the requirements of this chapter relative to a burial or removal permit, or transit permit shall have been complied with before any burial or other dispos…

26:6-33. Indorsement and return of burial or removal papers The person in charge of any premises on which an interment is made shall indorse, over his signature upon the burial or removal permit, or transit permit, the date of interment and shall return the permit so indorsed or …

26:6-34. Record of burial The person in charge of any premises on which an interment is made shall keep a permanent record of any burial or other disposal made on such premises, which record shall at all times be open to official inspection. This record shall in each case state t…

26:6-35. Procedure when no person in charge of cemetery The funeral director when burying a body in a cemetery or burial ground having no person in charge shall sign the burial or removal permit, or transit permit, giving the date of burial, and shall write across the face of the…

26:6-36. Depth of burials; bodies in private vaults Every dead body interred in any burial ground or cemetery in this state shall be buried so that the top of the outside coffin or box shall be at least four feet below the natural surface of the ground, and shall be immediately c…

26:6-37. Disinterments; when allowed; permits No dead body shall be disinterred or removed from any grave, tomb or burial place within this State except by direction of a competent court of this State for the purpose of criminal investigation or upon permit being given therefor b…

26:6-38. Disinterment of bodies of persons dying of communicable disease No dead body of a person who has died of smallpox, cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever, plague, or from any disease publicly declared by the State department to be communicable, shall be disinterred or remov…

26:6-39. Bodies in receiving vaults No unembalmed dead body shall be permitted to remain longer than 48 hours in a receiving vault in this State, the depth of which is less than 5 feet below the natural surface of the ground. This section shall not apply to properly constructed r…

26:6-4 Computation of death rate. 26:6-4. In computing the death rate of any municipality or health district in which there is located a hospital or other institution, any death which shall take place at such hospital or institution shall not be included among deaths occurring in…

26:6-4.1. Certificate of death 1. On or before the tenth day of each month, the State Department of Health shall certify to the supervisor of veterans' interment in each of the respective counties of the State, the name of each deceased veteran and of each deceased member of the …

26:6-4.2. Undertaker to make inquiry, report, penalty for failure to report 2. Whenever a dead body is transported from outside the State into this State for burial or other final disposition in this State, the person in charge of any premises in which the interment or cremation …

26:6-40. Powers of municipal authorities and local board The municipal authorities or local board or their properly authorized agents may at all times enter any cemetery or burial ground within the limits of their jurisdiction, examine into the condition of the same, and ascertai…

26:6-41. Violations; punishment Any person violating any of the provisions of this article or the person in charge of or exercising control over any cemetery or burial ground in this State who knowingly permits or suffers such violation, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding …

26:6-49. Amount; recovery Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter, any person violating any provision of this chapter, or falsifying any certificate or record established by this chapter, or failing or refusing to perform any duty required by this chapter, shall…

26:6-5. Cemeteries dangerous to public health; action for relief; costs When a cemetery or burial ground or part thereof for any reason has become dangerous to the public health and it shall be deemed inadvisable that any further interments be made therein, any municipal authorit…

26:6-5.1. Necessity of death certificate and burial or removal permit No person, without securing a proper death certificate and a burial or removal permit, shall: a. Remove a dead body from this State; or b. Bury or make other final disposition of such body in this State. Amende…

26:6-5.2. Recording of deaths The State Registrar of Vital Statistics shall, upon proper proof received from an appropriate agency of the National Military Establishment, or from the United States Department of Commerce, record the death of any person who died while in the milita…

26:6-5.3. Certifying deaths The State Registrar shall, upon request, certify such deaths in the same manner as in the case of deaths occurring and recorded in New Jersey. L.1950, c. 299, p. 1011, s. 2.

26:6-5.4. Fees No fees shall be charged or collected for the recording of such deaths as provided in section one, nor shall any fee be required or paid under section two when certification is made at the request of any of the next of kin or the legal representatives of such decea…

26:6-50 Persons who may consent to examination. 1. Any physician licensed to practice medicine and surgery in this State may conduct a post-mortem and necroscopic examination upon the body of a deceased person if he first obtains the consent in writing of any of the following per…

26:6-58.4. Findings, declarations 1. The Legislature finds and declares that: there is a need to increase the number of suitable organs recovered and transplanted in New Jersey, and that toward that end, and in the interest of cost-effective health care delivery, medical professi…

26:6-58.5 Transplant recovery technician's recovery of human body part. 6. A technician as defined in section 2 of P.L.2008, c.50 (C.26:6-78) may recover a human body part for any purpose specified in P.L.2008, c.50 (C.26:6-77 et al.). A physician shall not be required to be pres…

26:6-58.6. Medical record reviews by procurement organization 7. An organ procurement organization may perform ongoing medical record reviews of all deaths occurring in an acute care hospital licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.), for the purpose of determining…

26:6-6 Execution of death certificate. 26:6-6. a. The funeral director in charge of the funeral or disposition of the body of any person dying in this State shall be responsible for the proper execution of a death certificate in a legible manner, or by means of the NJ-EDRS, and f…

26:6-60.2 Maintenance of records by hospital relative to anatomical gifts. 2. A hospital shall maintain, as part of a patient's permanent record, the information required under this act and any other pertinent information concerning the anatomical gift which will facilitate the d…