Regulations of Baotou Municipality on Funeral Management

Chapter I General Provisions Article 1 In order to strengthen funeral management, standardize funeral behavior, promote funeral reform, protect land resources and environment, promote harmony between man and nature, and promote coordinated economic and social development, these Regulations are formulated in accordance with the Regulations of the State Council Municipality on Funeral Management and combined with the actual situation of this Municipality. Article 2 Those who engage in funeral activities and management within the administrative area of this Municipality shall abide by these regulations. Article 3 The funeral management in this Municipality adheres to the policy of cremation, burial reform, saving funeral land and changing customs, and advocates civilized and thrifty funeral management. The civil affairs department of the Fourth Municipal People's Government shall be responsible for the management and supervision of funeral and interment within the administrative area of this Municipality; The civil affairs departments of the flag, county and district people's governments shall be responsible for the funeral management and supervision within their respective administrative areas, and accept the professional guidance of the civil affairs departments at higher levels.

Planning, land, public security, industry and commerce, health, urban management, price, environmental protection, ethnic and religious departments, in accordance with their respective responsibilities, cooperate with the civil affairs departments to do a good job in funeral management.

State organs, public organizations, enterprises and institutions, hematoxylin towns, street communities, Gacha village (neighborhood) committees and other organizations shall publicize and educate the personnel in their own units or regions, and assist the civil affairs departments at higher levels to do a good job in funeral management.

Newspapers, radio, television and other news media should strengthen the publicity and education of funeral reform and management. Fifth financial departments at all levels should be included in the funeral management funds in the fiscal budget at the corresponding level, to give protection. Article 6 Respect the funeral customs of ethnic minorities; No one may interfere with the voluntary reform of funeral customs; Death victims of ethnic minorities who are buried in the ground shall be buried in areas designated by the people's governments at or above the county level. Article 7 Except for the burial reform area where the cremation conditions are temporarily unavailable with the approval of the Municipal People's Government, all other areas are cremation areas.

The local people's governments in the areas of burial reform should actively publicize the funeral reform, create conditions to improve funeral service facilities, and gradually implement cremation. Chapter II Management of Remains and Ashes Article 8 Unless otherwise provided by laws and administrative regulations, all those who die in cremation areas shall be cremated.

Without the approval of the municipal civil affairs department, it is forbidden to transport the body overseas; Private burial or mass burial is prohibited.

Foreigners who die in this city should be in funeral home cremation nearby. If it is necessary to transport the body back to the place where the household registration is located for special reasons, it must be approved by the municipal civil affairs department. Special vehicles for funeral should be used to transport the remains. Ninth normal death remains in the cremation area shall be cremated in time, and the mortuary shall not exceed 7 days.

If a person dies of diseases such as plague, cholera, anthrax and infectious atypical pneumonia, the corpse must be disposed of immediately and cremated nearby within 24 hours after death. If he dies of other infectious diseases, the body shall be cremated after sanitary treatment if necessary.

If it is really necessary to preserve the body of an abnormal death, the public security or judicial organ at or above the county level shall issue a certificate of temporary preservation of the body, and the preservation time shall generally not exceed six months. Special circumstances need to postpone the retention, approved by the municipal public security or judicial organs, and issue a certificate to postpone the retention of the remains, but the longest preservation time shall not exceed twenty-four months. Article 10 When going through cremation procedures, the following certificates shall be issued:

(a) the cremation of the remains of normal death, with the death certificate issued by the medical institution or the unit of the deceased or the Gacha Village (neighborhood) Committee;

(two) the cremation of the remains or nameless bodies that died abnormally shall be based on the death certificate issued by the public security organ where the deceased is located or found and the certificate of approval for cremation.

The unknown body shall be notified by the public security organ to the funeral parlour for reception. The public security organ shall issue a claim announcement in time and claim it within three months. After the public security organ makes the appraisal conclusion, the expenses for the preservation and cremation of the remains shall be allocated by the finance at the same level in funeral home cremation. The ashes are kept by the funeral home. Within twelve months after cremation, if the ashes are unclaimed, the funeral home shall file with the local funeral management department and bury them on the spot. Eleventh donated remains for scientific research and teaching, the use of units to accept the donation of remains to the municipal public health administrative department and to the municipal funeral management department for the record. Twelfth in the cremation area should be handled in the following ways:

(1) deposit;

(2) deeply planting trees;

(3) Deep underground burial;

(4) Spreading (it is forbidden to spread in the source area of surface water and drinking water);

It is forbidden to bury ashes in coffins. Chapter III Administration of Funeral Activities and Funeral Services Article 13 The heir of the deceased is the undertaker of the funeral. If the deceased has no heir, the unit where he worked before his death or the Gacha Village (neighborhood) committee at the place where he died shall be the undertaker of the funeral. Fourteenth funeral activities held in cities and towns shall comply with the following provisions:

(1) No mourning shed or mourning hall shall be built outdoors;

(2) Not to play or loudly play commemorative music;

(3) Don't park dead bodies, call the night or throw paper money in public places such as streets and residential areas. Fifteenth engaged in sacrificial activities, should adopt a healthy, civilized and frugal form of sacrifice, and abide by the following provisions:

(a) shall not be carried out in parks, squares, urban roads and their sides;

(two) shall not damage trees and lawns;

(three) shall not damage the environment or interfere with public safety.