gcls_citycode_1894_038

28 Ordinances of the City of Greenville.

Sec. 10. No hearse-keeper or other person shall receive
or carry any corpse or dead body until he shall have
first been supplied with a certificate of the kind required
to be furnished by the attending physician or Coroner
in the preceding Section, and further obtain from the
Chairman of the Board of Health or from the City
Clerk a burial permit in the following form:

Burial Permit No. _____
Greenville, S.C., __________188___
Permission is hereby given to remove the remains of ____ Age ____ ; occupation ____; place of birth ____; place of death ____; date of death ____; to ___ for interment.
__________________, Ch. Board Health.

And it shall be his or their duty to deliver the said
certificate and burial permit, with the dead body, to the
sexton or other person having charge of the burial
ground in which it is proposed to bury such dead body,
whenever such burial is within the limits of the City,
under a penalty of twenty-five dollars for every failure or
neglect so to do, and for any and every violation of the
provisions of this Section.

Sec. 11. No sexton or other person having charge of any
cemetery or other burial ground shall inter, or permit
to be interred, any dead body therein, until he shall
have first received from the person in charge of the body
such certificate and burial permit as he is required by
the Ordinance to deliver with such dead body; and it
shall be the duty of such sexton or person in charge of
the burial places to enter said certificate and burial permit
in a book to be furnished to him for that purpose;
and to deliver the original certificates and burial
permits each day, as received, to the Chairman of the
Board of Health or to the City Clerk; and for every
violation hereof he shall be subject to a fine not
exceeding fifty dollars.

Done and ratified under the Corporate Seal of the City
of Greenville, this eighth day of April, in the year
[in margin] (L.S.) of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and eighty-four.
S. A. TOWNES, Mayor
F. J. Bostick, Clerk Council.