§ 24-184 — Permit to ship body required
Denver Revised Municipal Code (Supp. No. 147, Update 3: codified through Ordinance No. 0852-26, enacted July 13, 2026) · Denver Revised Municipal Code § 24-184
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Sec. 24-184. - Permit to ship body required.
(a) When the shipment or removal of any human body beyond the corporate limits of the city is desired, a certificate of death, duly issued and signed as provided for in section 24-181 shall be presented to the manager of public health and environment, and shall be endorsed as required by section 24-182. (b) Such certificate and permit shall be sufficient authority for the removal of any human body, and being affixed to the box, case or coffin containing such body, together with the permit for shipment provided by law of such human body beyond the corporate limits of the city; provided, all other laws of the state, and ordinances of the city, and all rules of the department of public health and environment relating to the shipment or removal of the dead have also been complied with. (c) Any person, whether as principal, officer, agent or employee, who shall receive for shipment, ship, transport, remove or assist in shipping, transporting or removing any human body beyond the corporate limits of the city, without such certificate and permit, and, in case of shipment, without having such permit attached to such box, case or coffin shall be guilty of an offense hereunder.
(Code 1950, § 742.4; Ord. No. 1110-96, § 1, 12-16-96; Ord. No. 427-18, § 14, 6-11-18)