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NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-10 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-10 - Unavailability of attending physician, advanced practice nurse.

26:6-10 Unavailability of attending physician, advanced practice nurse.  26:6-10. In case the physician or the advanced practice nurse who last attended the deceased is unavailable, so that a certificate of death cannot be obtained from the physician or nurse in time for burial or removal: a. the designated covering physician shall have the primary responsibility, after examining the dead body, and being satisfied that death did not result from some unlawful means, to issue a death certificate; and b. in the absence of the designated covering physician, any other physician, after examining the dead body, and being satisfied that death did not result from some unlawful means, may issue a death certificate. amended 2003, c.221, s.8; 2015, c.38, s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-11 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-11 - Certificate of fetal death.

26:6-11 Certificate of fetal death.  26:6-11. A certificate of fetal death containing such items as shall be listed on fetal death certificate forms provided or approved by the department under the authority of subsection c. of R.S.26:8-24, and a burial or removal permit, shall be required for every fetal death; provided that 20 or more weeks of gestation have elapsed before the delivery. No midwife shall sign a certificate for a fetal death; but any fetal death occurring without attendance of a physician or an advanced practice nurse shall be treated as a death without medical attendance, as provided in R.S.26:6-9. The department shall take appropriate action to ensure that any certificate of fetal death required by this section is prepared in accordance with, and contains information that satisfies, the provisions of P.L.2013, c.217 (C.26:8-40.27 et seq.), designated as the "Autumn Joy Stillbirth Research and Dignity Act," and the current federal standards for fetal death certification and fetal death reporting, as adopted, amended, and supplemented by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  amended 1951, c.85, s.1; 1965, c.78, s.8; 2017, c.104, s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-13 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-13 - Incomplete certificate of death

26:6-13. Incomplete certificate of death  No certificate of death shall be held to be complete and correct that does not supply all of the items of information called for therein, or satisfactorily account for their omission.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-14 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-14 - Issuance of burial, removal permit; correction of death certificate; completion.

26:6-14 Issuance of burial, removal permit; correction of death certificate; completion.  26:6-14. Upon receipt of a death certificate, the local registrar shall: a. If the certificate is properly executed and complete, issue a burial or removal permit when requested; and b. If the certificate of death is incomplete and unsatisfactory, call attention to the defects in the return, and withhold the burial or removal permit until the defects are corrected. Any person certifying to any of the particulars in the certificate shall complete the same as directed by the local registrar in accordance with such terms as may be defined by the State registrar. For the purposes of the NJ-EDRS, the death certificate shall be complete when the attending, covering or resident physician or the county medical examiner, and the funeral director in charge, have completed their respective portions of the death registration record. Amended 1965, c.78, s.10; 2003, c.221, s.9.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-16 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-16 - Contents of burial, removal permit.

26:6-16 Contents of burial, removal permit.  26:6-16. The burial or removal permit shall be issued upon a form or through the NJ-EDRS as prescribed by the department, signed or authenticated through the NJ-EDRS by the local registrar, and shall state: a. The name, age, sex, cause of death, and other necessary details required by the department; b. That a satisfactory certificate of death has been filed as required by law; and c. That permission is granted to inter, remove, or otherwise dispose of the body. Amended 2003, c.221, s.10.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-17 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-17 - Fee for burial, removal or transit permit.

26:6-17 Fee for burial, removal or transit permit.  26:6-17. The State registrar shall be entitled to receive a fee of $5 for each burial or removal, or transit permit issued; except that, on or after the effective date of P.L.2007, c.98 but before the first day of the thirty-seventh month following the effective date of P.L.2007, c.98, the State registrar shall be entitled to receive a fee of $15. The State registrar shall deposit the proceeds from the fees into the New Jersey Electronic Death Registration Support Fund established pursuant to section 17 of P.L.2003, c.221 (C.26:8-24.2), and shall provide such amount from the fee, as the Commissioner of Health and Senior Services determines appropriate, to the local registrar who issued the permit. Amended 1954, c.93; 1965, c.78, s.11; 2003, c.221, s.11; 2007, c.98.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-20 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-20 - Burial in district other than place of death

26:6-20. Burial in district other than place of death  No burial permit shall be required from the local registrar of the district in which a burial is to be made, when a body is removed upon a proper removal permit from one district to another district in this state, for purpose of final disposition.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-21 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-21 - Emergency burial or removal permit

26:6-21. Emergency burial or removal permit  26:6-21. If through the absence of the local registrar, or for other sufficient reason, it is impossible to obtain from the registrar a burial or removal permit in time for burial or removal, a judge of the Superior Court or of a municipal court in the county in which the death occurred, if he is satisfied that the death certificate is genuine, and that no permit can be obtained in time for burial or removal, shall issue an emergency burial or removal permit.  Amended 1953,c.26,s.51; 1991,c.91,s.296.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-22 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-22 - Form of emergency permit

26:6-22. Form of emergency permit  26:6-22. The emergency burial or removal permit shall be issued in the following form:  "It being impossible to obtain a burial or removal permit from the registrar of vital statistics on account of (state here the reason), I, a judge of the Superior Court (or a judge of a municipal court of the .................. of ............. ), do hereby grant this emergency permit for the burial or removal of ....................... , whose death has been duly certified to me."  The permit shall be dated and signed by the judge and shall be given to the person delivering the certificate of death. The judge shall, within five days thereafter, transmit the certificate to the State registrar. The judge shall be entitled to $1.00 for the issuance of an emergency permit.  Amended 1953,c.26,s.52; 1965,c.78,s.14; 1991,c.91,s.297.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-23 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-23 - Transportation of certain bodies in sealed casket; license

26:6-23. Transportation of certain bodies in sealed casket; license  No person shall convey or aid in conveying to a common carrier to be transported across or within this state, nor shall a common carrier accept for transportation or transport across or within this state, the dead body of a person who has died of smallpox, Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever or bubonic plague, unless the body is inclosed in a hermetically sealed casket and a license for such transportation has been first obtained in writing from the state department.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-24 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-24 - Rules for transportation of body

26:6-24. Rules for transportation of body  The State Department may make any rule prescribing the manner in which a dead body, intended to be transported by any common carrier across or within this State, shall be disinfected, embalmed, or incased. Any such rule shall be referred to in the blank form of the transit permit required for the transportation of a dead body. Amended by L.1951, c. 82, p. 474, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-25 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-25 - Necessity of transit permit

26:6-25. Necessity of transit permit  No person shall ship or receive for shipment within this state or to any point outside the state, by any common carrier, a dead body until a transit permit has been issued by the local registrar of the district in which the death occurred.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-26 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-26 - Contents of transit permit

26:6-26. Contents of transit permit  The transit permit shall be issued upon a form prescribed by the State Department, signed by the local registrar, and shall set forth: a. That the body has been prepared for transportation in every particular as required by law and the rules of the State Department; b. The places from which and to which the body will be transported; and c. The name of the person, if any, authorized to accompany the body in its transit. Amended by L.1951, c. 82, p. 474, s. 2.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-27 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-27 - Disposition of transit permit

26:6-27. Disposition of transit permit  The funeral director shall attach such portion of the transit permit as is directed thereon to the box containing the corpse when shipped by any transportation company. The remaining portion of the transit permit shall be delivered to the passenger in charge of the corpse. This portion of the transit permit shall be delivered to the person in charge of the place of burial or other disposition. Amended by L.1965, c. 78, s. 15.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-28 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-28 - Burial or removal permit for imported bodies

26:6-28. Burial or removal permit for imported bodies  When a dead body is transported from outside this state into the state for burial or other final disposition, the transit or removal permit, issued in accordance with the law and health regulations of the place where the death occurred, shall be given the same force and effect as a local burial or removal permit.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-29 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-29 - Acceptance for shipment

26:6-29. Acceptance for shipment  If no such permit shall be brought with the body, or if the body be shipped by express and no permit is attached to the box in which the body is incased, then any common carrier may refuse to transport or to receive for transportation any such body until the permit has been obtained.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-31 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-31 - Delivery of burial or removal papers

26:6-31. Delivery of burial or removal papers  The funeral director shall deliver the burial or removal permit or the detachable portion of the transit permit, if any, to the person in charge or the place of burial or of final disposition before interring or otherwise disposing of the body. Amended by L.1965, c. 78, s. 17.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-32 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-32 - Require compliance with laws

26:6-32. Require compliance with laws  The person in charge of any premises on which an interment is to be made shall see that the requirements of this chapter relative to a burial or removal permit, or transit permit shall have been complied with before any burial or other disposal is made thereon. Amended by L.1965, c. 78, s. 18.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-33 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-33 - Indorsement and return of burial or removal papers

26:6-33. Indorsement and return of burial or removal papers  The person in charge of any premises on which an interment is made shall indorse, over his signature upon the burial or removal permit, or transit permit, the date of interment and shall return the permit so indorsed or the detachable portion of the transit permit, if any, to the local registrar of his district within 10 days from the date of interment, or within the time fixed by the local board. Amended by L.1965, c. 78, s. 19.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-34 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-34 - Record of burial

26:6-34. Record of burial  The person in charge of any premises on which an interment is made shall keep a permanent record of any burial or other disposal made on such premises, which record shall at all times be open to official inspection. This record shall in each case state the name of the deceased person, place of death, date of burial or other disposal, and the name and address of the funeral director. Amended by L.1965, c. 78, s. 20.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-35 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-35 - Procedure when no person in charge of cemetery

26:6-35. Procedure when no person in charge of cemetery  The funeral director when burying a body in a cemetery or burial ground having no person in charge shall sign the burial or removal permit, or transit permit, giving the date of burial, and shall write across the face of the permit or transit permit the words, "No person in charge," and file the permit or transit permit within 10 days with the registrar of the district in which the place of burial is located. Amended by L.1965, c. 78, s. 21.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-36 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-36 - Depth of burials; bodies in private vaults

26:6-36. Depth of burials; bodies in private vaults  Every dead body interred in any burial ground or cemetery in this state shall be buried so that the top of the outside coffin or box shall be at least four feet below the natural surface of the ground, and shall be immediately covered with at least four feet of earth, soil or sand. Bodies of infants in coffins or boxes not more than four feet in length shall be buried so that the top of the outside coffin or box shall be at least three feet and six inches below the natural surface of the ground, and shall be immediately covered with at least three feet and six inches of earth, soil or sand. This section shall not apply where bodies are placed or buried in properly constructed private vaults so as to prevent the escape of noxious or unhealthy gases therefrom.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-37 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-37 - Disinterments; when allowed; permits

26:6-37. Disinterments; when allowed; permits  No dead body shall be disinterred or removed from any grave, tomb or burial place within this State except by direction of a competent court of this State for the purpose of criminal investigation or upon permit being given therefor by the local board in the locality where the body is interred or entombed. Amended by L.1965, c. 78, s. 22.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-38 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-38 - Disinterment of bodies of persons dying of communicable disease

26:6-38. Disinterment of bodies of persons dying of communicable disease  No dead body of a person who has died of smallpox, cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever, plague, or from any disease publicly declared by the State department to be communicable, shall be disinterred or removed from any grave, tomb, vault or place within this State unless the body was originally interred in a metallic case, hermetically sealed, and then only by the order of and under the direction of the local board within whose jurisdiction the body was buried. The requirement as to the use of a metallic case shall not apply where the body has been embalmed prior to burial and buried or interred 3 years or more. Amended by L.1965, c. 78, s. 23.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-39 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-39 - Bodies in receiving vaults

26:6-39. Bodies in receiving vaults  No unembalmed dead body shall be permitted to remain longer than 48 hours in a receiving vault in this State, the depth of which is less than 5 feet below the natural surface of the ground. This section shall not apply to properly constructed receiving vaults which prevent the escape of noxious and unhealthy gases. Amended by L.1965, c. 78, s. 24.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-40 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-40 - Powers of municipal authorities and local board

26:6-40. Powers of municipal authorities and local board  The municipal authorities or local board or their properly authorized agents may at all times enter any cemetery or burial ground within the limits of their jurisdiction, examine into the condition of the same, and ascertain whether the laws regulating it are duly observed. Amended by L.1965, c. 78, s. 25.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-41 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-41 - Violations; punishment

26:6-41. Violations; punishment  Any person violating any of the provisions of this article or the person in charge of or exercising control over any cemetery or burial ground in this State who knowingly permits or suffers such violation, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $300.00 or by imprisonment for 6 months, or both. Amended by L.1965, c. 78, s. 26.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-49 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-49 - Amount; recovery

26:6-49. Amount; recovery  Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter, any person violating any provision of this chapter, or falsifying any certificate or record established by this chapter, or failing or refusing to perform any duty required by this chapter, shall be subject to a penalty of not less than $50.00 nor more than $100.00 for each offense. Such penalties shall be recovered in a civil action in the name of the State department or local board in any court of competent jurisdiction including the municipal court. Amended by L.1953, c. 26, p. 479, s. 53; L.1965, c. 78, s. 31.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-50 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-50 - Persons who may consent to examination.

26:6-50 Persons who may consent to examination.  1. Any physician licensed to practice medicine and surgery in this State may conduct a post-mortem and necroscopic examination upon the body of a deceased person if he first obtains the consent in writing of any of the following persons who shall have assumed responsibility and custody of the body for purposes of the burial: surviving spouse, domestic partner as defined in section 3 of P.L.2003, c.246 (C.26:8A-3), adult child, parent, or other next of kin, of the deceased person. In the absence of any of the foregoing named persons any other person charged by law with and who shall have assumed responsibility and custody of the body for the burial may give such consent. Where 2 or more of the abovementioned have assumed such responsibility and custody of the body for purposes of burial, the consent of 1 of such persons shall be sufficient. L.1954,c.113,s.1; amended 2003, c.246, s.31.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-58.4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-58.4 - Findings, declarations

26:6-58.4. Findings, declarations  1. The Legislature finds and declares that: there is a need to increase the number of suitable organs recovered and transplanted in New Jersey, and that toward that end, and in the interest of cost-effective health care delivery, medical professionals and technicians should be trained as transplant recovery specialists and should be enabled to perform the recovery of human body parts within licensed hospitals, independent of physician supervision. Recovery and transplantation will be further increased by the requirement that acute care hospitals provide federally designated organ procurement organizations with information concerning each death, and the accompanying medical information necessary for the organization to complete an audit in accordance with federal law. L.1995,c.257,s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-58.5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-58.5 - Transplant recovery technician's recovery of human body part.

26:6-58.5 Transplant recovery technician's recovery of human body part.  6. A technician as defined in section 2 of P.L.2008, c.50 (C.26:6-78) may recover a human body part for any purpose specified in P.L.2008, c.50 (C.26:6-77 et al.). A physician shall not be required to be present during the recovery procedure. Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit a physician or other person authorized by law to recover human body parts pursuant to law. L.1995, c.257, s.6; amended 2008, c.50, s.23.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-58.6 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-58.6 - Medical record reviews by procurement organization

26:6-58.6. Medical record reviews by procurement organization  7. An organ procurement organization may perform ongoing medical record reviews of all deaths occurring in an acute care hospital licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.), for the purpose of determining body part donation potential by hospital. L.1995,c.257,s.7.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-60.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-60.2 - Maintenance of records by hospital relative to anatomical gifts.

26:6-60.2 Maintenance of records by hospital relative to anatomical gifts.  2. A hospital shall maintain, as part of a patient's permanent record, the information required under this act and any other pertinent information concerning the anatomical gift which will facilitate the discharge of the patient's wishes in the event of the patient's death.  L.1985,c.284,s.2; amended 2001, c.87, s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:6-66 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:6-66 - Short title.

26:6-66 Short title.  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Hero Act," referring to individuals who donate life-saving and life-enhancing organs and tissues.  L.2008, c.48, s.1.