Vermont Statutes
Chapter 107 - Deaths, Burials, Autopsies
§ 5211. Unauthorized burial or removal; penalty

§ 5211. Unauthorized burial or removal; penalty
A person who buries, entombs, transports, or removes the dead body of a person without a burial-transit permit so to do, or in any other manner or at any other time or place than as specified in such permit, shall be imprisoned not more than five years or fined not more than $1,000.00, or both. (Amended 1969, No. 265 (Adj. Sess.), § 14; 2017, No. 46, § 54, eff. July 1, 2019.)

Structure Vermont Statutes

Vermont Statutes

Title 18 - Health

Chapter 107 - Deaths, Burials, Autopsies

§ 5200. Definitions [Effective January 1, 2023]

§ 5201. Permits; removal of bodies; cremation; waiting period; investigation into circumstances of death

§ 5201. Permits; removal of bodies; waiting period; investigation into circumstances of death

§ 5202. Report of death; death certificate; duties of licensed health care professional

§ 5202a. Correction, completion, or amendment of death certificate

§ 5205. Death certificate when no attending physician and in other circumstances; autopsy

§ 5206. Penalty for failure to submit report of death

§ 5207. Certificate furnished family; burial-transit permit

§ 5207. Certificate furnished family; burial-transit permit

§ 5208. Department of health; report on statistics

§ 5209. Death out of State; burial permit

§ 5210. Form of burial or removal permit

§ 5210. Form of burial or removal permit

§ 5211. Unauthorized burial or removal; penalty

§ 5212. Permit to remove dead bodies

§ 5212a. Removal; objections

§ 5212b. Unmarked Burial Sites Special Fund; reporting of unmarked burial sites

§ 5213. Removal; form and disposition of permit

§ 5213. Removal; form and disposition of permit

§ 5214. Duties of sexton; no burial or removal without permit

§ 5215. Burial returns

§ 5216. Penalty

§ 5217. Removal of marked historic remains

§ 5218. Determination of death

§ 5219. Persons missing and presumed dead; issuance of presumptive death certificate

§ 5221. Definitions

§ 5222. Reports

§ 5223. Unidentified fetus

§ 5224. Disposition of remains; permits

§ 5224. Disposition of remains; permits

§ 5225. Penalty

§ 5226. Definitions

§ 5227. Right to disposition

§ 5228. Forfeiture

§ 5229. Cost of disposition

§ 5229. Cost of disposition

§ 5230. Rights of funeral director or crematory operator

§ 5230. Rights of funeral director or operator of a disposition facility

§ 5231. Civil action

§ 5231. Civil action

§ 5232. Procedures generally

§ 5233. Limited liability

§ 5233. Limited liability

§ 5234. Organ Donation Special Fund