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 58 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 595, 596-DEC. 16, 1944 SEC. 3. Section 7 of said District of Columbia Motor Vehicle Park- ing Facility Act of 1942 is hereby amended by inserting after the figures and abbreviation "(52 Stat. 192)," the words "and the Act entitled 'An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to provide for the parking of automobiles in the Municipal Center', approved June 6, 1940,". Approved December 16, 1944. [CHAPTER 596] AN ACT To amend sections 675 and 676 of the Act entitled "An Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia", approved March 3, 1901, regulating the disposal of dead human bodies in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That sections 675 and 676 of the Act entitled "An Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia", approved March 3, 1901 (31 Stat. 1296), be amended to read as follows: "SEC. 675. REMOVAL or DEAD BODIES. -No dead body of any human being or any part of such body shall, in said District, be removed from place to place, interred, or in any manner disposed of without a permit for such removal, interment, or disposal granted by the Health Officer of said District, or by the proper municipal, county, or State authorities at the place where the death or disinterment occurred, except that permits for the removal of dead bodies from place to place within the District of Columbia may be issued by any deputy duly appointed as hereinafter prescribed. No human body or any part of such body shall be removed from place to place, interred, or in any manner disposed of otherwise than in accordance with the terms of said permit. Permits issued by the Health Officer or any duly appointed deputy for the removal, interment, or disposal of such dead body or part thereof shall be issued only upon the pres- entation of a proper death certificate, signed by a physician regis- tered at the Health Department of said District, who has attended the deceased during his or her last illness, or by the coroner of said District or his deputy. No body shall be disinterred in the District of Columbia without a permit granted by the Health Officer. Per- mits for disinterment (including permission to reinter or transport the body disinterred) shall be issued only upon the written applica- tion of the nearest relative or the legal representative of the deceased. No superintendent or other person m charge of any cemetery in said District or other place for the disposal of dead bodies shall assist in or assent to or allow any such interment, disinterment, or dispo- sition to be made in such cemetery or place until permit shall be given as aforesaid. It shall be the duty of the Health Officer of the District of Columbia to furnish all superintendents or other persons in charge of cemeteries in the District of Columbia with a currently correct list of all municipal, county, and State officials authorized to issue burial or removal permits in adjoining States. It shall be the duty of every such superintendent or other person who shall receive any such permit aforesaid to endorse thereon the date of the interment, disinterment, or disposal and to sign and forward the same before 6 o'clock post- meridian of the Saturday following the day of burial, disinterment, or disposal to the Health Officer of said District. "SEc. 675. (a) APPOINTMENT OF DEPUTIES TO IssUE REMOVAL PEB- Mrrs. -The Commissioners of the District of Columbia, upon recom- mendation of the Health Officer, may appoint a reasonable number of District of Columbia and United States employees as deputies who shall be authorized to issue permits for the removal of dead human 809 56 Stat. 93. D. C . Code, SBpp. III. 40-808 . 54 Stat. 241. December 16.1944 [H. R . 3619] [Public Law 491] District of Columbia Code, amendments. D.C.Code §27-118, 27-119. Permits for removal of deadhuman bodies. Disinterment. List of authorized ofcials in adjoining States Endorsement ofpe mit.

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