§ 35-1-420 — Permits

(a) The funeral director or person acting as such who
first assumes custody of a dead body or stillbirth shall obtain
a burial-transit permit prior to final disposition or removal
from the state of the body or stillbirth and within seventy-two
(72) hours after death. The burial-transit permit shall be
issued by the local registrar of the district where the
certificate of death or stillbirth was filed in accordance with
the requirements of this act. A burial-transit permit issued
under the law of another state which accompanies a dead body or
stillbirth brought into this state shall be authority for final
disposition of the body or stillbirth in this state.
(b) No permit for burial, cremation, removal, or other
disposition shall be issued by any local registrar until a
certificate of death or stillbirth, as far as it can be
completed under the circumstances of the case, has been filed
with him, and until all the regulations of the administrator of
the division of health and medical services in respect to the
issuance of such permit have been complied with. No permit shall
be issued which would be contrary to the sanitary laws of this
state.
(c) A permit for disinterment and reinterment shall be
required prior to disinterment of a dead body or stillbirth
except as authorized by regulation or otherwise provided by law.
The permit shall be issued by the local registrar to a licensed
funeral director, embalmer, or other person acting as such, upon
proper application.