No person in charge of any premises in which interments are made, shall inter, or permit the interment, disinterment, or other disposition of any body, unless it is accompanied by a burial, removal, disinterment, or transit permit. The Department of Health shall promulgate rules pursuant to chapter 1-26 governing the issuance of permits for disinterment or reinterment of a dead body or fetus.

Source: SDC 1939, § 27.0214; SL 1941, ch 124 , § 4; SDC Supp 1960, § 27.0214 (2); SL 1972, ch 194 , § 32; SL 1996, ch 215 , § 1.