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A. It is an infraction for any person to:

1. Disinter any body buried in any cemetery, except under the direction of the cemetery superintendent who shall, before disinterment, require a written permission from both the municipal health officer and the owner of the lot or his or her heirs, which written authorization shall be filed and preserved in a record kept for such purposes;

2. Disinter or remove the body of a person who has died from a contagious disease within two years after the date of burial, unless the body was buried in an hermetically sealed casket or vault and is found to be so encased at the time of disinterment.

B. It is an infraction to inter anything other than the remains of human bodies in cemeteries.

C. It is an infraction to bury the body of any person within the municipality except in the municipal cemetery or a private cemetery, unless by special permission of the governing body under such rules and regulations that it may prescribe. (Code 1975 § 8-224)