Sec.19-49-1. Removal and Transit permits

(a) Transit permits, as required by section 7-69 of the general statutes, shall be secured in duplicate, one copy being designated as a transit paster to be attached to the coffin or casket. Information for transit permits, other than what is contained in the death certificate, shall be supplied to the registrar in writing on forms furnished by the state department of health.

(b) Whenever death occurs at a hospital or state institution from actinomycosis, amebiasis, botulism, chickenpox, conjunctivitis (infectious), dysentery (bacillary), favus, German measles, gonorrhea, hookworm infection, influenza (grippe), malaria, measles, mumps, pneumonia (broncho), pneumonia (lobar), syphilis, rabies, tetanus, trachoma, trichinosis, tuberculosis (pulmonary), tuberculosis (other forms), whooping cough or yellow fever, and the body is to be removed to another town for preparation and burial, the body shall be temporarily prepared by being wrapped in two or more thicknesses of cloth. The licensed embalmer having charge of such body shall wrap the body and may sign the last certificate required in section 7-62 of the general statutes, provided in so doing such licensed embalmer shall obligate himself to further prepare the body as required by section 19-13-A43 as soon as practicable after arrival at his regular place of business.