New Jersey Statutes 26:6-22. Form of emergency permit
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 26:6-22
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- registrar: means the local registrar of vital statistics. See New Jersey Statutes 26:6-1
- State registrar: means the State Registrar of Vital Statistics. See New Jersey Statutes 26:6-1
26:6-22. The emergency burial or removal permit shall be issued in the following form:
“It being impossible to obtain a burial or removal permit from the registrar of vital statistics on account of (state here the reason), I, a judge of the Superior Court (or a judge of a municipal court of the ……………… of …………. ), do hereby grant this emergency permit for the burial or removal of ………………….. , whose death has been duly certified to me.”
The permit shall be dated and signed by the judge and shall be given to the person delivering the certificate of death. The judge shall, within five days thereafter, transmit the certificate to the State registrar. The judge shall be entitled to $1.00 for the issuance of an emergency permit.
Amended 1953,c.26,s.52; 1965,c.78,s.14; 1991,c.91,s.297.