(a) A person, firm, organization or association desiring to acquire, erect, or construct a crematory shall first obtain approval from the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control.
(b) The crematory shall be constructed in accordance with regulations adopted under Chapters 60 and 79 of Title 7 and shall not be located, managed, or conducted at any time in such a way to be a public nuisance.
(c) The crematory shall be subject at all times to inspection by the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, the Department of Health and Social Services, and by such officers of the state law-enforcement departments as may desire to inspect it.
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.