34-27-6. Burial record book required of cemetery--Indexes--Ownership records--Official inspection.
All copies of burial or removal permits shall be retained by the person in charge of any cemetery, or place of burial, and filed by him as a permanent record of such cemetery, and he shall forthwith make an exact copy of each burial or removal permit in a "burial record book," together with such additional information as may be prescribed by the secretary of health; such "burial record book" shall contain an alphabetical index, listing by name, all deceased persons interred or buried in the cemetery. Such cemetery burial record shall also provide a numerical or tract index, to be maintained by designating and numbering consecutively, each burial or removal permit, such permit number to be marked or noted on the individual grave space upon the cemetery plat or map, wherein such interment is or was made. Such person or cemetery officials shall also keep and maintain as a permanent record, the name and address of all grantees and a description of each cemetery subdivision, lot, or grave space, to whom such title has been conveyed or where certain areas have been reserved for special purposes. All such burial records together with the cemetery plat or map, shall at all times be open to official inspection.
Source: SL 1931, ch 267, §10; SDC 1939, §27.0214; SL 1941, ch 124, §4; SDC Supp 1960, §27.0214 (2).
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.