Cap. 10 Art. 145Mode of burial of dead bodies.

(1) Every dead body shall be buried with such covering as decorum and decency require.

(2) The dead body, or the coffin containing it, unless it be a metallic coffin hermetically closed, shall, in the grave, be covered with earth up to a height of at least forty-five centimetres.

(3) It shall not be lawful to bury, in the common vaults, any dead body in a coffin of any kind; and every dead body, in such vaults, shall be covered with earth up to the said height.

(4) If two or more dead bodies be laid in the same common vault, each of them shall be covered with earth up to a height of at least twenty-five centimetres, the body last laid being so covered up to a height of forty-five centimetres.