The funeral practitioner, or individual acting as funeral practitioner, shall secure the final disposition-transit permit from the subregistrar. The funeral practitioner, or person acting as funeral practitioner, shall deliver such permit to the sexton or person in charge of the place of final disposition before interring the body, cremating the body, donating the body to a medical school, or otherwise disposing of the body as authorized by law, or shall attach it to the box containing the corpse when the same is shipped by any transportation company. Such permit must be accepted by the sexton or person in charge as authority for the final disposition of the body. A body may not be accepted for carriage by a common carrier unless the permit is attached as required in this section.
23-06-10. Sextons to endorse and return final disposition-transit permit - Record of burials. Each sexton or person in charge of the burial ground shall endorse the date of interment upon the final disposition-transit permit over the person's signature, and return the final disposition-transit permit to the county recorder. The subregistrar or sexton shall file all completed permits, so endorsed, with the county recorder within ten days after the date of interment or within the time prescribed by the local board of health. The sexton shall keep a record of all interments made in the premises under the sexton's charge, stating the name of the deceased individual, the place of death, the date of burial, and the name and address of the funeral practitioner. Such record at all times must be open to public inspection. In the absence of a sexton, the funeral director making the burial shall endorse and return the final disposition-transit permit to the subregistrar.