26:6-4.2 - Undertaker to make inquiry, report, penalty for failure to report - New Jersey Statutes

26:6-4.2.  Bodies transported into State for final disposition; undertaker required to make inquiry and certify information to county official registering  veterans' graves    Whenever a dead body is transported from outside the State into this State for burial or other final disposition in this State, the undertaker making the interment of such dead body shall make due and diligent inquiry in order to determine whether the deceased person to be interred or cremated was a veteran of any war, and if so, the war in which said deceased veteran served.

    On or before the tenth day of each month the undertaker who made any such interment, shall certify to the supervisor of veterans' interment in the county  in which such interment or cremation was made, the name of each deceased  veteran who has been interred or cremated in said premises during the preceding  month, together with date and place of burial or cremation of such deceased  veteran, and the war in which said deceased veteran served.

    Any failure so to do on the part of the undertaker shall subject him to a penalty of fifty dollars ($50.00) to be recovered in an action of debt in the name of the supervisor of veterans' interment of any county wherein the violation occurs.

     L.1945, c. 202, p. 697, s. 2.  Amended by L.1946, c. 232, p. 842, s. 2; L.1953, c. 316, p. 1857, s. 1.