Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Subtitle 1 - GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 22 - MORTUARIES, CEMETERIES, EMBALMERS, UNDERTAKERS AND MORTUARY AUTHORITIES
Section 11-22-6 - Transportation of bodies
Universal Citation: HI Admin Rules 11-22-6
Current through February, 2024
(a) By common carrier
(1) The transportation of dead human
bodies by a common carrier shall be conducted in such a manner as not to be a
menace to the health of the general public.
(2) A burial-transit permit issued pursuant
to chapter
338, HRS, or chapter 841, HRS, shall
accompany the body.
(3) The body
must be placed in a coffin or casket. If the death resulted from a disease
specified in §
11-22-4(a)
(3) and the body is not embalmed, it shall be placed in a hermetically sealed
coffin or casket and encased in an outer box; provided, however, that no
section of this chapter shall be interpreted to prohibit the transportation of
dead bodies without the use of an outer case or box in closed vehicles designed
exclusively for the transportation of dead human bodies.
(b) Disinterred bodies. No disinterred body shall be shipped or transported within the State or out of the State without approval by the director. Such approval shall be given in the form of burial-transit permit, provided that no burial-transit permit shall be issued until a disinterment permit is issued in accordance with section 338-25.5, HRS.
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