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AN ORDINANCE
Amending Chapter 23 of Title 3 of the
Evanston City Code Regulating Undertakers
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EVANSTON:
SECTION 1: That Section 3-23-2 of the City Code of the City of Evanston,
1979, as amended, be and hereby is further amended to read as follows:
3-23-2: LICENSE FEES: The license fee for each undertaking establishment
within the State of Illinois shall be one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) per
annum. A temporary license may be issued to undertakers or funeral directors
maintaining an undertaking establishment in Illinois outside the City, which
temporary license shall be effective for a twenty-five (25) day period. The
temporary license shall be granted only on approval of the City Department
• of Health to undertakers or funeral directors currently registered by the State
Department of Professional Regulations. The fee for a temporary license shall
be thirty dollars ($30.00) for each twenty-five (25) day period.
It shall be unlawful for any licensed undertaker or funeral director to aid and
abet anyone to evade in any manner whatsoever the license requirements of
this Chapter.
SECTION 2: That Section 3-23-4(A) of the City Code of the City of Evanston,
1979, as amended, be and hereby is further amender` to read as follows:
3-23-4: PERMITS, CERTIFICATES REQUIRED:
(A) Permit to Remove, Inter, Cremate or Dispose of Bodies: It shall be
unlawful for any person to move the dead body of any human being, or any
part of such body, from any hospital or from place to place within the City,
or from the City, or to cremate or deposit any body in any vault within the
City, or to inter or disinter, or in any manner dispose of any body, or part
thereof, without first having obtained a permit so to do from the Public Health
Director, or his/her duly authorized representative, or without filing a self -
issuing permit, whichever applies; provided, however, that the Director or
authorized representative may grant permission for removal of the human
remains to the undertaking establishment of a funeral director registered by
the State Department of Professional Regulations prior to the issuance of such
a permit. When such permission to remove is granted by telephone, the
funeral director or undertaker shall enter on the certificate of death or fetal
death or, if this has not yet been obtained, shall submit in writing to the
person in charge of the hospital, nursing home or other institution where the
death has occurred, the assigned removal authorization number, the name of
the individual who granted the authorization, the date and hour the
authorization was granted, and his signature. Such telephone authorization
shall not be considered as permission to cremate, bury or otherwise dispose
of the body until a written permit based upon the presentation of a proper
death certificate to the Public Health Director or the duly authorized
representative has been issued by the Health Department. No body, or part
thereof, shall be disposed of otherwise than in accordance with the terms of
such permit.
Funeral Directors shall file a record of death within twenty-four (24) hours to
the local registrar where death occurred. Funeral Directors may use self -
issuing burial permits in accordance with Vital Records Act, 4101LCS 535/20-
21. Funeral Directors shall also file the death certificate with the local registrar
where death occurred within seven (7) days after death.
SECTION 3: That Section 3-23-4(B) of the City Code of the City of Evanston,
1979, as amended, be and hereby is further amended to read as follows: is
3-23-4: PERMITS, CERTIFICATES REQUIRED:
(B) Death Certificate Prerequisite to Issuance of Permit: Permits for the
removal, of a body or fetus from the State of Illinois, the cremation of a body
or fetus, or the disposal of a body or fetus in any manner where death is
subject to the coroner's or medical examiner's investigation shall ,be issued
only upon the presentation of a proper death--tertificate to the Public Health
Director, or a duly authorized representative. Such death certificate shall be
signed by a duly licensed physician, who has attended the deceased during
his last illness, or by the Coroner of the County, or, if the death occurred
outside of the City, the permit of the proper authority at the place where the
death occurred.
SECTION 4: That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith
are hereby repealed.
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SECTION 5: That this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after
its passage, approval, and publication in the manner provided by law.
Introduced: , 1997
Adopted: 4 (.b , 1997
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Approved �'a12 �t� j , 1997
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