The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2024 session of the General Assembly.
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Title 18 : Health
Chapter 107 : Deaths, Burials, and Autopsies
Subchapter 001 : GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
(Cite as: 18 V.S.A. § 5211)-
§ 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.)
