§ 10-12. Disinterments.  


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  • No undertaker or other person shall open or permit to be opened any grave, tomb or vault for the purpose of exhuming or removing any body which has been placed in the municipal cemetery for interment without a permit from the state commissioner of health.

(Code 1986, § 8-9; Code 2002, § 10-12)

State law reference

Removal of remains from unmarked grave, 11 O.S. § 26-112; interference with places of burial, 21 O.S. § 1161 et seq.; permit for disinterment, 63 O.S. § 1-319; exhuming of bodies buried without proper certification of death, 63 O.S. § 946.