34-27-11. Card-index records of burials maintained by local registrar--Contents.
The local registrar of vital records shall provide and maintain for all burials within his district a card-index file, alphabetical by name of deceased and under cemetery name, such card-index record to be maintained on 3x5 cards, each bearing the following information: name of cemetery, burial or removal permit number, name of deceased person, date of death, date of burial, veteran or nonveteran, location of burial by cemetery section number, block, lot, and grave number, date of filing, and book and page number wherein such permit is recorded. The registrar in maintaining such card-index record, shall use a white or buff colored card for the recording of each nonveteran and a blue or cherry colored card for recording each veteran's burial, for ready reference.
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.