(a) No dead human body or fetus attaining twenty (20) weeks of gestation or more shall be buried, deposited in a crypt, mausoleum or vault, cremated, removed from Guam or otherwise disposed of, unless a burial-transit permit has first been issued therefor by the Office of Vital Statistics. Such permit shall be presented to the person in charge of the cemetery, crematorium or other place of disposition, and shall be promptly returned by him to the Office of Vital Statistics after such burial, cremation or other disposition with a certification that the body was disposed of in accordance with the burial-transit permit.

(b) The Guam Registrar shall not issue a burial-transit permit for the disposition of any dead body in any place other than in a cemetery, crematorium, crypt or mausoleum which is in compliance with the regulations for cemeteries, crematoriums, crypts or mausoleums established by the Director. Each burial- transit permit shall include the cemetery plot number, crypt number or other information which will designate the exact location to which the body will be taken.

(c) The Guam Registrar shall issue burial-transit permits for disposition of bodies outside Guam or for burial at sea only when such disposition complies with regulations established by the Director for this purpose.

(d) Any person first assuming custody of a dead body or fetus shall obtain a burial-transit prior to final disposition or removal from Guam within seventy-two (72) hours after death.
(e) Burial-transit permits shall be issued provided that first a certificate of death or fetal death has been filed with the Office in accordance with §§ 3216 and 3217 of this article.

(f) A permit issued under the law of any state which accompanies a dead human body or fetus brought into Guam for final disposition shall be the authority to dispose of said body or fetus; provided, that the Director, in the protection of the public health, having consideration of the cause of death or other special conditions, may, in his discretion, order such form of burial or disposition of a dead body or fetus as he deems necessary.

(g) No dead human body or remains shall be disinterred for reburial or other purpose from any cemetery, crypt, mausoleum or vault without a permit from the Office of Vital Statistics. Such disinterments must comply with regulations established by the Director of the disinterment of human bodies or remains.

2017 NOTE: References to “”territory”” and “”territorial”” removed and/or altered to “”Guam”” pursuant to 1 Guam Code Ann. § 420.