Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-04-08

An Act relating to the burial of the dead III
incorporated cities in the State of Nevada.
Approved, March 8, 1879.
The people of the State of Nevada, repre-
scented in Senate and Assembly, do enact
as follows.
SECTION |. 1t shall be unlawful for any
undertaken or other person within the State
of Nevada to bury any deceased person who
has died within the limits of any incorporated
town or city in said State without first having
procured certificate from the physician who
attended the said deceased person during his
or her last illness, setting forth the name, ma
tivity, sex, age, time of death, place of death
and cause of death of said deceased person, as
near as can be ascertained by said physician.
pr0riled, that in cases where no physical n
has attended said deceased person during his
or her last illness, no such certificate shall be
required, but the Coroner's permit mentioned
in the next succeeding section in this Act
shall be obtained and shall be sufficient au-
thority for the burial Of such deceased per
son.
SEC 2 1t shall be the duty of any under
taker other person obtaining the certificate
mentioned in the first section of this Act, be-
fore burying such deceased person to present
such certificate to the Coroner of the county
within which such deceased person shall have
died The said Coroner, after being satisfied
of the truth of the facts set forth III said Ger
titicate shall issue permit to the person pre-
senting such certificate to bury the deceased
person named in said certificate or shall take
such action under the law as the facts set
forth i'll said certificate shall warrant Said
permit shall be in writing, signed by the Cor
oner, and shall set forth the facts under which
it was issued.
Said Coroner shall file in his office all phys
icians' certificates SO presented to him, and |
shall keep a record of the same and memo |
Orandum OF all such permits SO issued by him, |
which records and memoranda he shall turn |
over to his successor in Office, as a part of the
public records of his Office. The Coroner
shall receive from the party obtaining any
such permit fee of 5000 dollars for filing
and recording said certificate and 501O0 dol
IRIS for issuing said permit
SEC. 3. Any physician who shall wilfully |
ssue or sign, or cause to be issued or signed
my certificate as provided for in this Act,
knowing the facts Set forth in said certificate
% be false, shall be deemed guilty of a felony,
md upon conviction thereof shall be lmpris-
med in the State Prison for term not less
han one year and not more than FIVE years.
SEC. 4. Any person wilfully and unlaw-
ully violating any of the provisions of Sec
ions One and Two of this Act, shall be
eemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon
onviction thereof shall be punished by fine
f not less than fifty dollars nor more than
We hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in
he county jail not less than one month nor
lore than six months, or by both such fine
nd Imprisonment,
SEC 5. This Act shall take effect from
nj after the first day of May. 1879.
SEC. g. All AcTs and parts of Acts, in SO
n as they in conflict with the provisions
this Act, are hereby repealed.