Sec. 7-66. Duties of sextons. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 7-66. Duties of sextons. The sexton of a cemetery shall specify on the burial permit the place of burial, by section, lot or grave, or other place of interment. No additional burial or removal, transit and burial permit shall be required for a body that is placed temporarily in a receiving vault of any cemetery and subsequently buried in the same cemetery. In each case herein provided for, the sexton of such cemetery shall endorse upon the burial permit the date when the body was placed in the temporary receiving vault, and the date when and the place where such body was subsequently buried. The sexton shall also include a statement of the same in the monthly returns to the registrar of vital statistics. The sexton shall send a copy of the endorsed removal, transit and burial permit, or the permit for final disposition if the death occurred in another state, to the registrar of vital statistics who filed the death certificate for the body for which said removal, transit and burial permit was issued. If such subsequent burial is to be in any cemetery other than the cemetery where the body was temporarily deposited or if the body is to be cremated, the sexton shall return the burial permit to the issuing registrar, who shall thereupon issue the necessary permits. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than five years.

      (1949 Rev., S. 588; P.A. 04-255, S. 8; P.A. 07-104, S. 2.)

      History: P.A. 04-255 added requirement that sexton specify place of burial, deleted references to disposal of ashes and made conforming changes; P.A. 07-104 substituted "removal, transit and burial permit" for "burial transit removal permit" and required sexton to send copy of endorsed removal, transit and burial permit or permit for final disposition, if death occurred in another state, to registrar of vital statistics who filed the death certificate for the body, effective July 1, 2007.