R 325.3 Burial-transit permit.
Rule 3. The Michigan department of health and human services may authorize a registrars,
mortuary science, and funeral director licensees to have full authority to make out and sign a new
burial-transit permit where a dead human body is transferred beyond the destination point as given
on the burial-transit permit which accompanies the body. The same applies to cases where bodies
are placed in a cemetery vault and transferred at some later date. The original burial-transit permit
which accompanies the body must be given to the registrar, mortuary science, or funeral director
licensee before a new burial-transit permit is made by the person authorizing the transfer. The
person issuing the new permit must indicate the point of destination on the original burial-transit
permit. When a mortuary science or funeral director licensee issues a new burial-transit permit,
the original burial-transit permit must be filed within 72 hours with the registrar in whose
jurisdiction the transfer was made.
History: 2016 AACS.
R 325.4 Removal of body from incorporated or unincorporated area; death or stillbirth
certificate; burial-transit permit; duty of county clerk.
Rule 4. (1) When a mortuary science or funeral director licensee is called upon to remove a body
from an incorporated or unincorporated area, the mortuary science or funeral director licensee may
remove the body for the purpose of caring for it but must file a completed death or stillbirth
certificate and secure a burial-transit permit within 72 hours from the local registrar of the
incorporated or unincorporated area in which the death occurred.
(2) If a death occurs in an unincorporated area, when a Sunday or a holiday or both, or when an
immediate internment, cremation, or shipment makes it impossible to obtain a burial-transit permit
by mail, a mortuary science or funeral director licensee may issue a burial-transit permit to him or
herself, provided that the envelope in which the completed death or stillbirth certificate is mailed
to the county clerk in whose jurisdiction the death occurred is postmarked within the 72 hours after
the death occurred.
(3) If for any other reason a burial-transit permit has not been received by mail in time for the
interment, cremation, or shipment, the mortuary science or funeral director licensee may issue a
burial-transit permit to him or herself, provided that the envelope in which the completed death or
stillbirth certificate was mailed to the county clerk in whose jurisdiction the death occurred is
postmarked within the 72 hours after the death occurred.
(4) When a county clerk receives a death or stillbirth certificate from his or her primary
registration district by mail, he or she shall enter on the certificate, as the date of filing, the date on
which the certificate or certificates were received and shall also enter beneath the date of filing the
postdate appearing on the envelope in which the certificate or certificates arrived.
History: 2016 AACS.
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