ENROLLED HOUSE
BILL NO. 1614	By:	Cannaday of the House

				and

		Boggs of the Senate

An Act relating to public health and safety; amending 63 O.S. 2011, Section 1-319, which relates to burial transit and disinterment permits; requiring application for disinterment to include proof of notice to certain individuals; and providing an effective date

SUBJECT:  Application for disinterment

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

SECTION 1.     AMENDATORY     63 O.S. 2011, Section 1-319, is amended to read as follows:

Section 1-319.  A.  A burial transit permit issued under the laws of another state which accompanies a dead body or fetus brought into this state shall be authority for final disposition of the body or fetus in this state.

B.  A permit for disinterment and reinternment reinterment shall be required prior to disinterment of a dead body or fetus except as authorized by regulation or otherwise provided by law.  Such permit shall be issued by the State Registrar to a licensed funeral director, embalmer, or other person acting as such, upon proper application.

C.  Application for disinterment shall include proof of notice to the owner(s) of the interment lot or burial space, if other than the applicant.

D.  Application for disinterment shall include proof of notice to all surviving adult children of the decedent, if other than the applicant.

SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2013.

Passed the House of Representatives the 26th day of February, 2013.

	
	Presiding Officer of the House
	of Representatives

Passed the Senate the 10th day of April, 2013.

	
	Presiding Officer of the Senate

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
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By: _________________________________
Approved by the Governor of the State of Oklahoma this _________ day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.

	_________________________________
	Governor of the State of Oklahoma

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