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Burial; registration
Municipalities can stipulate in their cemetery statutes that a burial in their cemetery must be registered.
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Description
Municipalities can stipulate in their cemetery statutes that a burial in their cemetery must be registered in advance. They are not legally obliged to do so. For the municipality as the cemetery operator, such notification makes it easier to collect the information required for a burial and to organize the burial dates and the use of the burial facilities.
Requirements
According to the Burial Act, deceased residents of a municipality are entitled to be buried in a cemetery in their municipality. The obligation to notify does not change this.
Proceedings
Who has to register the burial and the details of the procedure can be found in the respective cemetery statutes.
Deadlines
The respective cemetery statutes specify when the notification must be submitted to the municipality at the latest.
Legal bases
Related issues
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Funeral facilities; construction and maintenance
The municipalities are obliged to establish and maintain the necessary burial facilities, in particular cemeteries and mortuaries.
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Cemetery, mortuary; adoption of rules of useThe municipalities must provide the necessary burial facilities, in particular cemeteries and mortuaries. This does not apply if there is no public need for them. This is particularly the case if a church cemetery sufficiently covers the need.
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Cemetery and burial fees; paymentThe municipalities charge fees for the use of their burial facilities on the basis of cemetery fee statutes.
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Grave space; application for a right of useWhen allocating a grave site in a municipal cemetery, the municipality grants the citizen a temporary right of use subject to a fee.
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Mortuary passport; application for issueA corpse passport is required for repatriations within Germany or abroad if the country to which the body is to be repatriated or a country touched during the journey requires a corpse passport.
Status: 06.12.2024
Editorial responsibility Bayerisches Staatsministerium des Innern, für Sport und Integration
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