Haw. Code R. § 7-32-17 - Disinterment

(a) Interment of eligible decedents shall be considered to be permanent and final.

(b) Disinterment and removal of remains shall be permitted only with the prior approval of the director.

(c) All arrangements and all expenses in connection with a disinterment shall be the responsibility of the requesting individual or agency. These arrangements shall include compliance with the local and State health laws or rules, engagement of a funeral director to accomplish the disinterment, necessary re-casketing of the remains, rehabilitation of the old grave, and compliance with any special instruction of the director.

(d) Disinterments shall be supervised at the gravesite by the director or a designated cemetery official.

(1) Special care and concern shall be shown for adjacent graves and markers.

(2) Cemetery personnel shall reopen the grave down to one foot above the top of the grave liner vault or casket.

(A) Cemetery personnel shall not otherwise participate in any other aspect of the disinterment operation.

(B) No charge shall be made for the supervision and reopening of the grave to the extent indicated above.

(e) The marker of the grave being disinterred shall not be shipped to the cemetery where the remains are to be interred.

(f) If the decedent being disinterred is to be reinterred at another location within the cemetery, the same marker shall be removed and reordered showing the change of grave location and placed at the new gravesite.

(g) When a disinterment has been completed, the open grave shall be reused at the earliest practical date.

Notes

Haw. Code R. § 7-32-17

[Eff: 8/10/91; am SEP 03 1994] (Auth: HRS § 363-2) (Imp: HRS § 363-2)