Section 20
SEC. 20. Any permit for burial, interment, or cremation shall be null and void after a period of forty-eight-hours has elapsed from the time of issue. Except when required for the purpose of legal investigation or when specially authorized by local health authorities, no dead body shall remain unburied for a greater time than forty-eight hours after death. Whenever it has been certified or is known that any person died with a contagious, infectious, or communicable disease of a dangerous character, the body of such person shall be buried within twelve hours after death, unless otherwise directed by the local board of health.