The State Registrar of Vital Statistics through the central office or any of the county vital statistics offices, upon application to and the payment of the usual fee to any or either of them, shall issue a permit to any relative of any deceased person buried prior to January 1, 1893, and now remaining in private, family or old and neglected burying grounds in Sussex County and Kent County for the disinterment of the remains and the reinterment of the remains in public or private cemeteries or any other chosen or designated place in Kent County or Sussex County or without the State, the same as if the application had been made by a duly licensed undertaker. Upon obtaining the permit, the relative is vested with the same authority as a duly licensed undertaker in the disinterment and reinterment of the remains including the securing of vaults and providing for all other necessary arrangements in connection therewith.
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.