Vermont § 5212 - Permit to remove dead bodies

§ 5212. Permit to remove dead bodies

• (a) A person desirous of disinterring or removing the body of a human being from one cemetery
  to another cemetery or to another part of the same cemetery or from a tomb or receiving
  vault elsewhere shall apply to the clerk of the municipality in which the dead body
  is interred or entombed for a removal permit. (b) An applicant for a removal permit shall publish notice of his or her intent to remove
  the remains. This notice shall be published for two successive weeks in a newspaper
  of general circulation in the municipality in which the body is interred or entombed.
  The notice shall include a statement that the spouse, child, parent, sibling, or descendant
  of the deceased, or that the cemetery commissioner or other municipal authority responsible
  for cemeteries in the municipality may object to the proposed removal by filing a
  complaint in the Probate Division of the Superior Court of the district in which the
  body is located as provided in section 5212a of this title. (c) The municipal clerk shall issue a removal permit 45 days after the date on which notice
  was last published pursuant to subsection (b) of this section or, if an objection
  is made pursuant to section 5212a, of this title upon order of the court. (d) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) of this section, a removal
  permit shall be issued upon application: (1) when removal is necessary because of temporary entombment; or (2) to a federal, state, county, or municipal official acting pursuant to official duties;
  or (3) if the applicant has written permission to remove the remains from all persons entitled
  to object under section 5212a of this title. (e) This section does not apply to: (1) unmarked burial sites that are subject to the provisions of subchapter 1 of this chapter;
  and (2) the removal of “historic remains,” which has the same meaning as in subdivision 5217(a)(1)
  of this subchapter. (Amended 1985, No. 206 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. June 2, 1986; 2009, No. 151 (Adj. Sess.), § 3; 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 238a, eff. Feb. 1, 2011; 2023, No. 85 (Adj. Sess.), § 55, eff. July 1, 2024.)