C-19 - Cities and Towns Act

Section 462 Disposition versions

2006-01-01

462. (Repealed).

R. S. 1964, c. 193, s. 471; 1968, c. 55, s. 5; 1996, c. 2, s. 168; 2005, c. 6, s. 194.

1996-05-08

462. The council may make by-laws:

(1)  To regulate or prevent the burial of the dead within the territory of the municipality;

(2)  To regulate and determine the manner in which bodies may be disinterred;

(3)  To regulate and control the establishment of cemeteries;

(4)  To cause the removal of bodies interred contrary to law, and to vacate or discontinue any cemetery, and cause the removal of any bodies interred therein;

(5)  To compel the persons in charge of any cemetery in the territory of the municipality, or outside thereof when the cemetery is used for interring the remains of persons dying in the territory, to deliver to the council annual returns of the total number of persons who died in the territory of the municipality and were buried in such cemetery during the year;

(6)  To exact that, in all cases of death occurring in the territory of the municipality, a certificate be deposited in the office of the council, and that such certificate be made in the form and manner determined by the council, and also to adopt other means to obtain exact returns respecting mortality and the causes of death;

(7)  To authorize the medical health officer or any other officer or employee of the municipality authorized by the council to make such inquiries as he may deem necessary, when no certificate of death has been produced, or when the certificate does not disclose the cause of death, so as to establish as precisely as possible the cause of death and other particulars which the protection of public health may require;

(8)  To prevent any corpse being taken out of the territory of the municipality without a special permit from the medical health officer or any other officer or employee of the municipality authorized by the council, without prejudice to the laws respecting coroners’ inquests and postmortem examinations.

R. S. 1964, c. 193, s. 471; 1968, c. 55, s. 5; 1996, c. 2, s. 168.

1977-12-31

462. The council may make by-laws:

(1)  To regulate or prevent the burial of the dead within the municipality;

(2)  To regulate and determine the manner in which bodies may be disinterred;

(3)  To regulate and control the establishment of cemeteries;

(4)  To cause the removal of bodies interred contrary to law, and to vacate or discontinue any cemetery, and cause the removal of any bodies interred therein;

(5)  To compel the persons in charge of any cemetery in the municipality, or outside thereof when the cemetery is used for interring the remains of persons dying in the municipality, to deliver to the council annual returns of the total number of persons who were in the municipality at the time of their death and were buried in such cemetery during the year;

(6)  To exact that, in all cases of death occurring in the municipality, a certificate be deposited in the office of the council, and that such certificate be made in the form and manner determined by the council, and also to adopt other means to obtain exact returns respecting mortality and the causes of death;

(7)  To authorize the medical health officer or any other officer or employee of the municipality authorized by the council to make such inquiries as he may deem necessary, when no certificate of death has been produced, or when the certificate does not disclose the cause of death, so as to establish as precisely as possible the cause of death and other particulars which the protection of public health may require;

(8)  To prevent any corpse being taken out of the municipality without a special permit from the medical health officer or any other officer or employee of the municipality authorized by the council, without prejudice to the laws respecting coroners’ inquests and postmortem examinations.

R. S. 1964, c. 193, s. 471; 1968, c. 55, s. 5.