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S.L. 2007-531 Session Laws - 2007
1772
(6) Facility name (if not institution, give street and number);
(7) County of death;
(8) City of death; and
(9) Time of death (if known).
(b) When required by G.S. 130A-388 and the rules adopted pursuant to that
section or by successor statute and the rules pursuant to it, a cremation authorization
form signed by a medical examiner shall be received by the crematory prior to
cremation.
(c) In deaths coming under full investigation by the Office of the Chief Medical
Examiner, a burial-transit permit/cremation authorization form must be received by the
crematory before cremation.
(d) No body shall knowingly be cremated with a pacemaker or defibrillator or
other potentially hazardous implant or condition in place. The authorizing agent for the
cremation of the human remains shall be responsible for taking all necessary steps to
ensure that any pacemaker or defibrillator or other potentially hazardous implant or
condition is removed or corrected prior to cremation. If an authorizing agent informs the
funeral director and the crematory licensee on the cremation authorization form of the
presence of a pacemaker or defibrillator or other potentially hazardous implant or
condition in the human remains, then the funeral director shall be responsible for
ensuring that all necessary steps have been taken to remove the pacemaker or
defibrillator or other potentially hazardous implant or to correct the hazardous condition
before delivering the human remains to the crematory.
(e) Human remains shall not be cremated within 24 hours after the time of death,
unless such death was a result of an infectious, contagious, or communicable and
dangerous disease as listed by the Commission of Health Services, pursuant to
G.S. 130A-134, and unless such time requirement is waived in writing by the medical
examiner, county health director, or attending physician where the death occurred.
(f) No unauthorized person shall be permitted in view of the cremation chamber
or in the holding and processing facility while any human remains are being removed
from the cremation container, processed, or pulverized. Relatives of the deceased and
their invitees, the authorizing agent and the agent's invitees, medical examiners,
Inspectors of the North Carolina Board of Funeral Service, and law enforcement
officers in the execution of their duties shall be authorized to have access to the
crematory area, subject to the rules adopted by the crematory licensee governing the
safety of such individuals.
(g) Human remains shall be cremated only while enclosed in a cremation
container. Upon completion of the cremation, and insofar as is possible, all of the
recoverable residue of the cremation process shall be removed from the cremation
chamber. Insofar as is possible, all residue of the cremation process shall then be
separated from any foreign residue or anything else other than bone fragments and then
be processed by pulverization so as to reduce the cremated remains to unidentifiable
particles. Any foreign residue and anything other than the particles of the cremated
remains shall be removed from the cremated remains as far as possible and shall be
disposed of by the crematory licensee. This section does not apply where law otherwise
provides for commingling of human remains. The fact that there is incidental and
unavoidable residue in the cremation chamber used in a prior cremation is not a
violation of this subsection.
(h) The simultaneous cremation of the human remains of more than one person
within the same cremation chamber is forbidden.
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| Full Text | S.L. 2007-531 Session Laws - 2007 1772 (6) Facility name (if not institution, give street and number); (7) County of death; (8) City of death; and (9) Time of death (if known). (b) When required by G.S. 130A-388 and the rules adopted pursuant to that section or by successor statute and the rules pursuant to it, a cremation authorization form signed by a medical examiner shall be received by the crematory prior to cremation. (c) In deaths coming under full investigation by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, a burial-transit permit/cremation authorization form must be received by the crematory before cremation. (d) No body shall knowingly be cremated with a pacemaker or defibrillator or other potentially hazardous implant or condition in place. The authorizing agent for the cremation of the human remains shall be responsible for taking all necessary steps to ensure that any pacemaker or defibrillator or other potentially hazardous implant or condition is removed or corrected prior to cremation. If an authorizing agent informs the funeral director and the crematory licensee on the cremation authorization form of the presence of a pacemaker or defibrillator or other potentially hazardous implant or condition in the human remains, then the funeral director shall be responsible for ensuring that all necessary steps have been taken to remove the pacemaker or defibrillator or other potentially hazardous implant or to correct the hazardous condition before delivering the human remains to the crematory. (e) Human remains shall not be cremated within 24 hours after the time of death, unless such death was a result of an infectious, contagious, or communicable and dangerous disease as listed by the Commission of Health Services, pursuant to G.S. 130A-134, and unless such time requirement is waived in writing by the medical examiner, county health director, or attending physician where the death occurred. (f) No unauthorized person shall be permitted in view of the cremation chamber or in the holding and processing facility while any human remains are being removed from the cremation container, processed, or pulverized. Relatives of the deceased and their invitees, the authorizing agent and the agent's invitees, medical examiners, Inspectors of the North Carolina Board of Funeral Service, and law enforcement officers in the execution of their duties shall be authorized to have access to the crematory area, subject to the rules adopted by the crematory licensee governing the safety of such individuals. (g) Human remains shall be cremated only while enclosed in a cremation container. Upon completion of the cremation, and insofar as is possible, all of the recoverable residue of the cremation process shall be removed from the cremation chamber. Insofar as is possible, all residue of the cremation process shall then be separated from any foreign residue or anything else other than bone fragments and then be processed by pulverization so as to reduce the cremated remains to unidentifiable particles. Any foreign residue and anything other than the particles of the cremated remains shall be removed from the cremated remains as far as possible and shall be disposed of by the crematory licensee. This section does not apply where law otherwise provides for commingling of human remains. The fact that there is incidental and unavoidable residue in the cremation chamber used in a prior cremation is not a violation of this subsection. (h) The simultaneous cremation of the human remains of more than one person within the same cremation chamber is forbidden. |
