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North Dakota Century Code

Chapter 23-06

N.D. Cent. Code ch. 23-06

Care and Custody of Dead

23-06-01Right to dispose of one's own body 23-06-01.1Immunity from liability 23-06-01.2Application of other laws 23-06-02Custody of body 23-06-03Duty of final disposition - Final disposition of individuals who are indigent - Decedent's instructions 23-06-03.1Payments on pre-need funeral contracts to be deposited - Depository shall keep record of deposit - Personal property storage - Penalty 23-06-04Time within which final disposition must be made - Exceptions 23-06-05Failure to dispose within required time - Penalty 23-06-06Neglect of final disposition - Penalty 23-06-07Regulation of final disposition - Issuance of final disposition-transit permit regulated 23-06-08Final disposition-transit permit - Contents 23-06-09Disposition of final disposition-transit permit 23-06-10Sextons to endorse and return final disposition-transit permit - Record of burials 23-06-11Burial without final disposition-transit permit - Penalty 23-06-12Transporting body without final disposition-transit permit 23-06-13Dissection - When allowed 23-06-14What bodies may be used for dissection 23-06-15When body not to be used for dissection 23-06-16Bond given by person receiving body 23-06-17Bodies required to be buried or cremated after being dissected 23-06-18Dissection - Removal of body - Sale - Penalty 23-06-19Interference with burial of dead limb or member of body - Penalty 23-06-20Where body may be buried 23-06-21Regulation of cemeteries 23-06-21.1Title to burial plots reverts after sixty years - Procedure - Abandonment 23-06-22Sexton - Term of office, records, duties 23-06-23Department to enforce regulation of cemeteries - Injunction 23-06-24Unlawful removal of dead body - Penalty 23-06-24.1Endangered gravesites - County action authorized 23-06-25When body may be removed from cemetery - Penalty for failure to remove 23-06-26Purchasing body forbidden - Penalty 23-06-27Protection of human burial sites, human remains, and burial goods - Unlawful acts - Penalties - Exceptions 23-06-28Arresting or attaching dead body - Penalty 23-06-29Penalty for violating provisions relating to dissections and general penalty 23-06-30Abandoned cemeteries to be maintained by counties 23-06-31Cremation or other lawful disposition of a body - Authorization document - Immunity