To Obtain a Burial Permit IN PERSON The decedent's full name. Date of birth. Date of death. City of Death. County (if death occurred in California)/ State (if death occurred outside California) An original death certificate or an original transit/burial permit.

You can bury a body on private property, but you'll have to establish a family cemetery first. Maine law allows a family burial ground to be up to 1/4 acre in size, and it must be enclosed by a fence or other boundary markers.

A Burial / Disposition Permit must be obtained before any kind of disposition can take place for a body. To obtain a Burial / Disposition Permit, original death documents or required stillbirth documents need to be provided to a hospital administrator.

For a traditional burial, this means lowering the casket into the plot within the cemetery grounds. A private interment is when the family chooses to keep this process amongst close friends and family only. In some cases, the family won't attend this graveside process at all.

Interment of ashes refers to cremated remains being buried in the ground or placed in a columbarium. A columbarium is a building specially designed to hold ashes. Interment is ideal for people who do not wish for their ashes to be scattered or displayed in the home.

Definitions of interment. the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave. synonyms: burial, entombment, inhumation, sepulture. type of: funeral. a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated.

Burial Permits are required by California law prior to the disposition of human remains such as burial, cremation, or scattering of cremated remains. Permits may be obtained through any California licensed funeral establishment or by an application process with our office.