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46-0-60
AN ORDINANCE
Amending Sections 46-2 and 46-5
of Chap. 46 "Undertakers" of the
Code of the City of Evanston-1957.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
EVANSTON, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS:
SECTION 1: That sections 46-2 and 46-5 of
Chapter 46 "Undertakers" of the
Code of the City of Evanston-1957, be and the same are hereby
amended so that same shall hereafter be and read as follows:
Section 46-2: The license fee for each undertaking
establishment within the City of Evanston shall be
$25 per annum. A funeral director maintaining an
• undertaking establishment in Illinois outside the
City of Evanston, but doing business within the City
of Evanston, shall pay a license fee of $50 per annum.
A temporary license may be issued to undertakers or
funeral directors maintaining an undertaking estab-
lishment in Illinois outside the City of Evanston,
which temporary license shall be effective for a 10
day period. The temporary licens4,fee shall be $5
for each 10 day period. Such annual or temporary
license shall be granted only on approval of the
Evanston Department of Health to undertakers or
funeral directors currently registered by the State
of Illinois, Department of Registration and Education.
It shall be unlawful for any licensed under-
taker or funeral director to aid and abet anyone to
evade in any manner whatsoever, the license require-
ments of this ordinance.
Section 46-5: 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 duly authorized representative, provided,
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however, that this Director or his authorized
representative may grant permission for removal
of the human remains to the undertaking establish-
ment of a funeral director registered by the Illinois
Department of Registration and Education 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 insti-
tution 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 updn the presentation of a proper death certi-
ficate to the Public Health Director or his 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.
SECTION 2: Any person, association or cor-
poration who violates any of the
provisions of this ordinance shall be fined in accordance with
Section 1-4 of the Code of the City of Evanston-1957.
SECTION 3: All ordinances or parts of
are hereby repealed.
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ordinances in conflict herewith
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SECTION 4: This ordinance shall be in full
force and effect from and after
its passage, approval and publication, according to law.
INTRODUCED December 27
ADOPTED January 3
ATTEST:
Maurice F. Brown
City Clerk
Approved as to form:
Rex A. Bullinger
Corporation Counsel
Published January 12
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APPROVED January 3
J. R. Kimbark
Mayor
1961
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