The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2024 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
Title 18: Health
Chapter 107: Deaths, Burials, and Autopsies
- Subchapter 001: GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
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§ 5200. Definitions
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§ 5201. Permits; removal of bodies; waiting period; investigation into circumstances of death
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§ 5202. Report of death; death certificate; duties of licensed health care professional
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§ 5202a. Correction, completion, or amendment of death certificate
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§ 5203. Repealed. 2017, No. 46, § 48, effective July 1, 2018.
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§ 5204. Repealed. 2017, No. 46, § 49, effective July 1, 2019.
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§ 5205. Death certificate when no attending physician and in other circumstances; autopsy
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§ 5206. Penalty for failure to submit report of death
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§ 5207. Certificate furnished family; burial-transit permit
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§ 5208. Department of Health; report on statistics
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§ 5209. Death out of State; burial permit
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§ 5210. Form of burial or removal permit
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§ 5211. Unauthorized burial or removal; penalty
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§ 5212. Permit to remove dead bodies
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§ 5212a. Removal; objections
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§ 5212b. Unmarked Burial Sites Special Fund; reporting of unmarked burial sites
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§ 5213. Removal; form and disposition of permit
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§ 5214. Duties of sexton; no burial or removal without permit
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§ 5215. Burial returns
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§ 5216. Penalty
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§ 5217. Removal of marked historic remains
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§ 5218. Determination of death
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§ 5219. Persons missing and presumed dead; issuance of presumptive death certificate
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§ 5220. Repealed. 2015, No. 23, § 152(2).
- Subchapter 002: FETAL DEATHS
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§ 5221. Definition
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§ 5222. Reports
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§ 5223. Unidentified fetus
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§ 5224. Disposition of remains; permits
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§ 5225. Penalty
- Subchapter 003: RIGHTS OF FAMILY MEMBERS, OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS, FUNERAL DIRECTORS, AND OPERATORS OF DISPOSITION FACILITIES
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§ 5226. Definitions
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§ 5227. Right to disposition
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§ 5228. Forfeiture
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§ 5229. Cost of disposition
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§ 5230. Rights of funeral director or operator of a disposition facility
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§ 5231. Civil action
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§ 5232. Procedures generally
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§ 5233. Limited liability
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§ 5234. Organ Donation Special Fund