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23LSO-0162
2023
STATE OF WYOMING
23LSO-0162
Numbered
2.0
HOUSE BILL NO. HB0023
Burial-transit permit amendments.
Sponsored by: Joint Labor, Health & Social Services Interim Committee
A BILL
for
AN ACT relating to public health and safety; amending the requirements for issuance of a burial-transit permit; authorizing the issuance of a temporary burial-transit permit under specified circumstances; amending a definition; amending the requirements for issuance of a permit for disinterment and reinterment; and providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1
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W.S. 35
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1
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401(a)(viii) and 35
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1
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420 are amended to read:
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401.
Definitions.
(a)
As used in this act:
(viii)
"Final disposition" means the burial, interment, cremation,
alkaline hydrolysis, full
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body donation
or other disposition of a dead body or stillbirth;
35
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1
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420.
Permits.
(a)
The funeral
director or person acting as such
service practitioner
who
first
assumes
physical
custody of a dead body or stillbirth shall obtain a burial
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transit permit prior to final disposition
.
or removal from the state of the body or stillbirth and within seventy
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two (72) hours after death.
The burial
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transit permit shall be issued by the local registrar
or a funeral service practitioner designated as a deputy registrar
of the district where the certificate of death or stillbirth was filed in accordance with the requirements of this act. A burial
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transit permit issued under the law of another state which accompanies a dead body or stillbirth brought into this state shall be authority for final disposition of the body or stillbirth in this state.
Removal from the state of a dead body or stillbirth for final disposition shall only occur after a burial
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transit permit has been obtained. Temporary removal from the state of a dead body or stillbirth shall be made pursuant to the issuance of a temporary burial
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transit permit as follows:
(i)
A local registrar or a funeral service practitioner designated as a deputy registrar may issue a temporary burial
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transit permit for purposes of removal of a dead body or stillbirth from the state for partial body donation, which includes but is not limited to organ, bone and skin donation. The dead body or stillbirth shall be returned to the state after the donation for final disposition and issuance of a burial
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transit permit as specified in this section;
(ii)
A county coroner may issue a temporary burial
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transit permit for purposes of removal of a dead body from the state for examination. The dead body shall be returned to the state after examination for final disposition and issuance of a burial
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transit permit as specified in this section.
(b)
No permit for burial, cremation,
removal, or other disposition
alkaline hydrolysis or full
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body donation of a dead body or stillbirth
shall be issued by any local registrar
or a funeral service practitioner designated as a deputy registrar
until a certificate of death or stillbirth, as far as it can be completed under the circumstances of the case, has been
electronically
filed with
him,
the state office of vital statistics services
and until all the regulations of the administrator of the division of health and medical services in respect to the issuance of such permit have been complied with. No permit shall be issued which would be contrary to the sanitary laws of this state.
(c)
A permit for disinterment and reinterment shall be required prior to disinterment of a dead body or stillbirth except as authorized by regulation or otherwise provided by law. The permit shall be issued by the local registrar
or a funeral service practitioner designated as a deputy registrar
to a
licensed
funeral
director, embalmer, or other person acting as such,
service practitioner
upon proper application.
Section 2
.
This act is effective July 1, 2023
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(END)
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