Chap. 441.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1569 of the Code of

Virginia. (H B71)

Approved March 27, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion fifteen hundred and sixty-nine of the Code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sestion 1569. Duties of undertaker—The undertaker, or person
acting as undertaker, shall be responsible for obtaining and filing the
certificate of death with the local registrar of the district in which
the death occurs, and for securing a burial or removal permit, prior to
any disposition of the body, except as otherwise provided in this chap-
ter. He shall obtain the personal and statistical particulars required
from the person best qualified to supply them, giving the name and
address of his informant. He shall then present the certificate to the
attendant physician, if any, or to the health officer or coroner, as
directed by the local registrar, for the medical certificate of the cause
of death and other particulars necessary to complete the record as
specified in the two. preceding sections. He shall then state the facts
required relative to the date and place of burial, over his signature
and with his address and present the completed certificate to the
local registrar in order to obtain a permit for burial, removal or other
disposition of the body. The undertaker shall deliver the burial
permit to the sexton, or person in charge of the place of burial,
before interring or otherwise disposing of the body; or he shall dis-
pose of the transit permit as provided by law for the transportation
of corpses in this State when shipped by a transportation company ;
said permit to accompany the corpse to its desired destination, and
if the burial shall take place within this State, the removal permit
shall be delivered to the sexton or other person in charge of the
place of burial.

_ Any dealer, carpenter, or other person who shall sell a coffin for
the burial of a dead person, shall deliver to the purchaser a certificate
of death filled out as completely as possible, and instruct the pur
chaser, that after supplying any omitted information either statis:
tical or medical, to deliver said certificate to the local registrar of}
the district in which the death occurred, and obtain from the saic
registrar a burial or transit permit before interment, removal, o:
other disposition of said body is made.

If for good reason the doctor’s or coroner’s certificate of death
or that of the person acting as coroner, cannot be obtained, the
purchaser or person acting as undertaker shall file with the local
registrar a provisional certificate of death upon which the registrar
shall issue a burial or transit permit on condition that a completed
certificate of death will be filed within ten days with the registrar
of the district in which the death occurred.

Each dealer, carpenter, or other person selling coffins shall fur-
nish the State registrar at the end of each month, a list of sales for
the month, of coffins in cases in which death certificates have not been
filed with the local registrar.

This list must include the names and address of the purchasers,
names, color, age and sex of deceased, and dates of deaths.