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Connecticut Public Acts

Connecticut Department of Public Health:

  • Environmental Engineering - Mausoleums, Crematories, Private Burial Grounds (Includes the application for requesting permission for a private burial ground)

  • Transportation of Bodies of Deceased Persons

  • Student Embalmers & Funeral Directors

OLR Research Reports - Office of Legislative Research:

  • Assistance with Funeral Expenses - 2026-R-0026

  • Statutes Concerning Public Cemeteries - 2022-R-0028

  • Funeral and Burial or Cremation Expenses for Indigent Individuals - 2019-R-0304

  • Duties of Cemetery Sextons - 2018-R-0075

  • Miscarriage Burial Laws - 2018-R-0032

  • Statutes Concerning Cemetery Associations - 2017-R-0089

  • Honor Guard at Veterans' Funerals - 2017-R-0036

  • Disposition of Unclaimed Bodies - 2016-R-0233

  • Funeral Directors And Handling Of Deceased Persons - 2009-R-0281

  • Funeral Service Expenses - 2007-R-0666

  • Pre-need Funeral Services Contracts - 2007-R-0578

  • Disinterment of a Body - 2005-R-0916

  • Right-Of-Way Of Funeral Processions - 2004-R-0 303

Federal Trade Commission:

  • Paying Final Respects: Your Rights When Buying Funeral Goods and Services (PDF)

Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA):

  • Burial and Memorial Benefits

  • Burial and Plot Interment Allowance

 

  • P.A. 07-252 .  see Sec. 11. Crematories records, documentations, permits etc .

  • P.A. 07-252.   see Sec. 80(a). Body of a deceased person may be disposed of by cremation

Connecticut General Statutes

Selected Statutes:

Chapter 93. Registrars of Vital Statistics

  • Sec. 7-62b. Death certificates; filing and registration; responsibilities of funeral directors and licensed embalmers; medical certification; burial of person who died from communicable disease; "presumptive" death certficates; regulations.

  • Sec. 7-64 . Disposal of bodies

Chapter 368j. Cemeteries

  • Sec. 19a-313 . (Formerly Sec. 19-161a). Burials above ground restricted.

Chapter 368k. Crematories

  • Sec.19a-320 . (Formerly Sec. 19-165). Erection and maintenance of crematories. Certificates of Inspection. Fees.

  • Sec. 19a-322 . (Formerly Sec. 19-167). Records and certificates.

  • Sec. 19a-323 . (Formerly Sec. 19-168). Cremation authorized. Cremation certificate or permit for final disposition required. Fee payable in certain cases.

Chapter 802b. Decedent's Estates

  • Sec. 45a-318. Document directing or designating individual to have custody and control of disposition of deceased person's body. Funeral director's or embalmer's reliance on document. Individuals entitled to custody and control of disposition. Revocation. Form. Petition to Probate Court. Dispute re disposition of remains. Funeral director's or embalmer's reliance on funeral service agreement.

Chapter 952. Penal Code: Offenses

  • Sec. 53a-218. Interference with a cemetery or burial ground: Class C felony.

Connecticut Case Law
  • Piquet v. Town of Chester , 306 Conn. 173 (2012).

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