§ 10.04.120. Duties of sextons and undertakers.  


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  • Every person who acts as a sexton or undertaker, or cemetery keeper, within the city limits, or has the charge or care of any tomb, vault, burying ground or other place for the reception of the dead, or where the bodies of any human beings are deposited, shall so conduct his business and so care for any such place above named as to avoid detriment or danger to the public health; and every person undertaking preparations for the burial of a dead body where death resulted from any communicable disease shall adopt such precautions as the board of health may prescribe to prevent the spread of such disease.

(Code 1966, § 5.04.120)