34-27-10. Cemetery plats received by local registrar--Posting when burial permit issued.
The local registrar of vital records shall receive and file as a permanent record, the plat or map, or copy thereof, of each cemetery within his district as provided in this chapter; thereafter it shall be the duty of such registrar to regularly mark and designate upon each plat or map, the exact grave space of all subsequent burials within such cemetery, by using a uniform mark for all burials, a distinguishing and separate mark for the graves of veterans, and by inserting in such grave space, the burial or removal permit number, assigned to such burial at time of filing permit.
Source: SDC 1939, §27.0217 as added by SL 1941, ch 124, §6; SL 1945, ch 105.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 34 - Public Health and Safety
Chapter 27 - Cemeteries And Burial Records
Section 34-27-7 - Purpose of requirements as to cemetery plats.
Section 34-27-10 - Cemetery plats received by local registrar--Posting when burial permit issued.
Section 34-27-11 - Card-index records of burials maintained by local registrar--Contents.
Section 34-27-12 - Supervision of burial record system by Department of Health--Enforcement powers.
Section 34-27-14 - Violation or failure to maintain records as misdemeanor.
Section 34-27-15 - Duty of reinterment when cemetery removed--Punishment for omission of duty.
Section 34-27-16 - Liability for expense of reinterment on removal of cemetery.
Section 34-27-17 - Punishment for omission to reinter when cemetery removed.
Section 34-27-19 - Removing dead body maliciously or with intent to sell or dissect as misdemeanor.
Section 34-27-20 - Receiving dead body unlawfully removed as misdemeanor.
Section 34-27-21 - Definition of terms.
Section 34-27-24 - Commercial display of human skeletal remains or funerary objects as felony.
Section 34-27-25 - Reporting discovery of human skeletal remains--Failure to report as misdemeanor.
Section 34-27-26 - Disturbing human skeletal remains or funerary objects as felony.
Section 34-27-30 - Rules promulgated by State Historical Society Board of Trustees.
Section 34-27-32 - Refusal to turn over remains or objects to tribal group--Appeal.