No body or stillborn fetus shall be disinterred within the State except upon a permit granted by the State Registrar of Vital Statistics. The forms of disinterment permits shall be prepared by the Office of Vital Statistics. Disinterment and removal must be conducted under the personal supervision of a licensed funeral director.
Structure Delaware Code
Chapter 31. REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, DIVORCES, ANNULMENTS AND ADOPTIONS
Subchapter III. Burial, Removal or Cremation of Dead Bodies
§ 3151. Permit for removal, burial or other disposition; foreign permits; prerequisites for permit.
§ 3152. Burial/transit permits for shipment of corpses — Required.
§ 3153. Disinterment — Rules and regulations.
§ 3154. Authorization for disinterment and reinterment.
§ 3155. Permits for disinterment of bodies buried in Kent or Sussex County before January 1, 1893.
§ 3156. Disinterment from condemned land.
§ 3157. Cremation; prohibited except in licensed crematory.
§ 3158. Crematory; approval for construction; requirements; inspection.
§ 3159. Permit for cremation; issuance, retention and inspection.
§ 3161. Delivery, transportation and disposal of ashes.
§ 3162. Witnesses at cremation.
§ 3163. Permit where death occurs in this State and cremation takes place elsewhere.
§ 3164. Cremation in this State when death occurred elsewhere.