Code of Police Laws (Cap. 10), article 144

144. (1) It shall not be lawful to bury any dead body in any cemetery wherever situate in which the sanitary authority shall have prohibited burial, or wit hout such sanitary precautions as may be prescribed by the sanitary authority. Burial of persons dying of infectious disease. (2) It shall not be lawful to convey to any church or chapel the body of any person who has died of plague, cholera, smallpox or typhus fever or such other diseas e communicable by contagion or infection as the Superintendent of Public Health may determine. Burial in church or chapel, etc. (3) It shall not be lawful to bury in any church or chapel or in the crypt of any church or chapel or in the appurtenances of an y church or chapel the body of any person except with the special permission of the Superintendent of Public Health which shall b e granted only in exceptional circumstances: Provided that the provisions of this sub-article shall not apply to any church, chapel or crypt situated inside the Addolo rata Cemetery. Exposing dead body in state of incipient putrefaction. (4) It shall not be lawful to e xpose, or leave exposed, in any place accessible to the public, any dead body in a state of inc ipient putrefaction. Mode of burial of dead bodies. Amended by: II.1880.12.