Section 4162. Fetal deaths; burial and removal; permits  


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  • 1. A permit shall
      be required for the removal, transportation, burial or other disposition
      of remains resulting from  a  fetal  death,  other  than  fetal  tissue,
      hydatidiform  mole or other evidence of pregnancy recovered by curettage
      or operative procedures or other products of conception of under  twenty
      weeks uterogestation.
        2.  Such permit shall be issued by the local registrar of the district
      in which the fetal death  occurred  upon  presentation  by  the  funeral
      director  of  a  report  of  fetal  death, on the form prescribed by the
      commissioner. The issuance of  such  permit  shall  be  subject  to  the
      provisions of title IV of this article.