34-25-24. Permit required for disposition of dead body or fetus.
No body of any person whose death occurs in this state or which is found in this state or of a fetus after a gestational age of not less than twenty completed weeks may be interred, deposited in a vault or tomb, cremated, or otherwise disposed of, or removed from the state unless, prior to the disposition, a permit for disposition is obtained electronically from the department or on paper from the registrar of the registration district in which the death, or fetal death occurred or the body was found.
Source: SDC 1939, §27.0211; SL 1972, ch 194, §24; SL 1993, ch 253, §7; SL 2003, ch 186, §4; SL 2007, ch 195, §10.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 34 - Public Health and Safety
Chapter 25 - Vital Records And Burial Permits
Section 34-25-1 - Department of Health to have charge of registration.
Section 34-25-1.1 - Definition of terms.
Section 34-25-4 - Vital registration districts--Establishment, consolidation or subdivision.
Section 34-25-8.1 - Birth in moving conveyance.
Section 34-25-9.2 - Birth certificate signed by parents or informant.
Section 34-25-13.4 - Father not named on birth certificate--No other information entered.
Section 34-25-14 - Child of unknown parents--Physician to name child and file birth certificate.
Section 34-25-15 - Legitimation of child--New birth certificate--Fee.
Section 34-25-16 - Adoption information forwarded by clerk of courts.
Section 34-25-16.2 - Birth certificate after adoption when birth unrecorded.
Section 34-25-16.3 - Adoption information on child born out-of-state forwarded to state of birth.
Section 34-25-16.6 - Copies of birth certificates.
Section 34-25-16.7 - Determining mother for birth certificate.
Section 34-25-16.8 - New birth certificate for certain crime victims--Sealing.
Section 34-25-18.1 - Determination of death.
Section 34-25-24 - Permit required for disposition of dead body or fetus.
Section 34-25-24.1 - Notice to funeral director--Communicable disease or condition.
Section 34-25-32.1 - Report required of certain fetal deaths other than abortions.
Section 34-25-32.2 - Fetal death report filed by physician--Coroner to report unattended deaths.
Section 34-25-32.3 - Disposition of remains of embryo or fetus.
Section 34-25-32.4 - Medical facility to provide for disposal of aborted fetuses.
Section 34-25-32.5 - Failure to comply as public nuisance.
Section 34-25-32.6 - Disposition of fetal remains--Method.
Section 34-25-32.7 - Fetal organ, tissue donation--Circumstances--Consent required.
Section 34-25-32.8 - Definitions related to stillbirth.
Section 34-25-32.10 - Name of stillborn child on certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth.
Section 34-25-32.12 - Form and content of certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth.
Section 34-25-32.14 - Fee for certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth.
Section 34-25-32.16 - Certificate may be requested without regard to date of fetal death.
Section 34-25-33 - Burial or removal permit filed by funeral director after final disposition.
Section 34-25-34 - Burial-transit permit issued out-of-state as authority for final disposition.
Section 34-25-36 - Records and monthly report of funeral director.
Section 34-25-38.1 - Issuance of disinterment permit.
Section 34-25-39 - Completion of burial permit when no person in charge of cemetery.
Section 34-25-42 - Delayed registration of birth, death, or marriage--Fee.
Section 34-25-46 - Signing, dating, and numbering of permits for disposition by local registrar.
Section 34-25-51 - Amendment of vital record--Fee for delayed amendment.
Section 34-25-52.1 - Copies or data supplied to public or private agencies.
Section 34-25-52.2 - Additional fee for copy of birth record--Disposition.
Section 34-25-52.3 - Free birth certificate with head start enrollment form.
Section 34-25-52.4 - Uniform forms and procedures for issuance of copies of records--Rules.
Section 34-25-57 - Violation of requirements as misdemeanor.
Section 34-25-58 - Enforcement and supervisory powers of department--Investigations by secretary.
Section 34-25-61 - Severability of provisions.
Section 34-25-62 - Electronic list of persons married in South Dakota.