Whenever a dead body shall be removed from the City, the Board of Health shall record in a book of records the name, age and sex of such deceased person, his/her place of residence and family, the time when, the place where and the disease of which such person died, the time of such removal, the name and place of residence of the person who made the same and the place to which such body was removed for interment, a copy of the same to be transmitted by the City Clerk.
Whenever a body shall be removed from the place of the original or any subsequent interment to another place in the City, or shall be removed from the City, the undertaker or other person having charge of such removal shall, within one week thereafter, notify the City Clerk in writing, giving the name of the person whose body has been removed and the places where the body was removed from and to, and the City Clerk shall make a note to the original record or correct the same in such manner as to indicate the place of the latest interment.
Every undertaker or other person, at each funeral under his charge, shall forthwith obtain and return to the Board of Health the name, the date of the death, the sex, the color, the condition (whether married, widowed or single), the name of the attending physician, the age, the residence, the occupation, the place of death, the place of burial and the names and places of the birth of the parents of the deceased, to be transmitted to the City Clerk for record, in accordance with the provisions of law.
It shall be the duty of undertakers or other persons having charge of the burial of bodies of deceased persons brought into the City and buried therein to return to the City Clerk, within one week after such burial, the facts relating to such dead body, so far as they can be ascertained, required to be returned to the City Clerk by § 171-17, and the Clerk shall record such facts in a book to be kept for that purpose.
The Clerk, upon recording the facts returned by the undertaker or other person, shall forthwith give to the person making such return a certificate that such return has been made, which certificate such person shall deliver to the person having charge of the interment, if other than himself, before the burial when practicable, otherwise within seven days thereafter. When a burial takes place and no certificate is delivered as aforesaid, the undertaker or other person having charge of the interment shall forthwith give notice thereof to the City Clerk.
No body shall be removed from any grave or tomb in the City without a written license from the Board of Health, which shall attend by its duly authorized agent or cause a licensed undertaker to attend to such removal.