Guangdong Province Funeral Management Measures?

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Chapter 1 General Principles

< p>Article 1 In order to strengthen funeral management, protect and save land resources, and promote the construction of socialist material civilization and spiritual civilization, these measures are formulated in accordance with the relevant regulations of the State Council and in conjunction with the actual situation of our province.

Article 2: The task of funeral management is to actively and step by step promote cremation, reform burial, abandon feudal and superstitious funeral customs, and promote civilized and frugal funerals.

Article 3 People’s Governments at all levels are the leading organs for funeral management. They should effectively strengthen leadership, support the competent departments in funeral management, and coordinate public security, industrial and commercial administration, religion, health, land, and Relations with relevant departments such as finance, overseas Chinese affairs, transportation, labor, personnel, news, urban and rural construction planning, etc., mobilize the whole society to promote funeral reform.

Article 4: Civil affairs departments at all levels are the competent departments for funeral and interment management, and implement funeral and interment management under the leadership of the people's *** at the same level. Its main responsibilities are:

*** Promote and implement the laws, regulations, rules and policies of the national funeral reform, and be responsible for the funeral management work within its jurisdiction;

***Second*** formulates plans and measures for funeral reform;

***Three*** leads and manages funeral management offices, funeral parlors, crematoriums, cemeteries and other funeral units;

***4*** deals with violations of funeral management regulations.

Article 5: All agencies, groups, military units, enterprises and institutions, and urban and rural grassroots organizations should conduct publicity and education on funeral reforms to personnel in their own units or municipalities, and ensure that the relevant laws, regulations and rules for funeral management are in compliance with the laws and regulations. Policies are implemented.

Article 6: Each city and county should establish and improve funeral management offices and staff them with appropriate personnel to be responsible for funeral management within their respective regions. Its responsibilities are:

***1*** Inspect and supervise the implementation at the grassroots level of local people***'s funeral reform measures;

***2*** Do a good job in promoting cremation and reform the publicity and education of burials;

Article 7 People’s governments at all levels should incorporate the construction of funeral facilities, including funeral parlors, crematoriums, cemeteries, etc., into local economic and social development plans , arrange land and funds to meet the needs of funeral reform.

Chapter 2 Cremation Management

Article 8 Cities and counties with an urban population of more than 50,000*** including the rural population*** classified into the town shall Establish a crematorium and practice cremation.

Article 9: Any city or county that has a crematorium or a crematorium nearby should designate a cremation area and promote cremation. The proportion of the population demarcating the cremation area to the total population of the area: 50% in mountainous counties; 60% in hilly counties; 70% in plain districts, cities and counties; 80% in urban suburbs, and all urban areas of large and medium-sized cities Zoned for cremation.

Article 10: All remains in the cremation area shall be cremated. Burial is prohibited and the sale of museum wood is prohibited.

Article 11: Persons who die in the hospital in the cremation area shall have their remains collected and cremated by the local funeral home and shall not be buried. Medical institutions should establish a body registration system. If a body needs to be transported, a certificate issued by the city or county funeral management department should be presented.

Article 12 If cremation is not carried out after the death of cadres and employees of enterprises, institutions and foreign-invested enterprises owned by the whole people or collectively owned enterprises in the cremation area, the unit where they work shall not pay funeral expenses and one-time compensation to their relatives. pension.

Article 13 The cremated ashes are handled by the bereaved person themselves. They can be stored in ashes halls, ashes walls, and ashes cemeteries. They can also be buried in trees and scattered into the sea, but they are not allowed to be created in areas other than the cemetery. Grave burial.

Chapter 3 Burial Management

Article 14: Areas that have not yet been designated as cremation areas shall be burial reform areas. Burial reform areas should be based on townships, towns or management areas, and cemeteries should be established on barren hills and barren land for centralized burial. Burial in areas other than cemeteries is prohibited.

Existing bases and graves in the city, unless otherwise provided by laws and regulations, will be taken over and transformed by the local funeral management department.

Article 15: Cities and counties with a large number of overseas Chinese may build overseas Chinese apartments to bury the ashes, remains or skeletons of overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

The management of remains and skeletons transported into this province for burial shall be carried out in accordance with relevant regulations.

Article 16 The construction of a cemetery must go through the approval procedures in accordance with the "Interim Measures for Cemetery Management" promulgated by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. After approval by the civil affairs department with the power to approve, the company must register with the local industrial and commercial administration and obtain a business license before it can officially operate; operating funds established without approval are not allowed to operate. For commercial cemeteries, funeral institutions must participate in the construction, operation and management.

Article 17: The land required for the construction of a cemetery shall be handled in accordance with the application and approval procedures for non-agricultural land.

Article 18: Strictly control the area of ??the tomb. The area of ??each body shall not exceed 4 square meters, and the area of ??ashes shall not exceed 1 square meter.

Article 19: Cemeteries should be greened, beautified, and built into garden-style cemeteries.

Article 20 It is prohibited to use cultivated land as a cemetery. Any organization or individual is prohibited from illegally leasing, transferring, or buying and selling tombs. It is prohibited to restore or build new family cemeteries and to build living graves. Violators will be ordered by the local city or county civil affairs department in conjunction with the land management department to relocate the grave within a time limit and restore the original landform.

Article 22: For graves within the scope of land requisitioned by the state for construction, the land user shall publish a newspaper or post a notice to notify the grave owner to handle the relocation of the grave within a time limit, and the local funeral management department shall provide assistance. If no one handles the relocation of the grave after the expiration date, it will be treated as an ownerless grave.

Article 23: After the death of ethnic minority members who believe in Christianity, they can be buried in the ground, but they should be buried in the cemetery in areas where there are cemeteries; those who are willing to be cremated are encouraged.

Chapter 4: Stopping Feudal Superstitious Funeral Customs

Article 24: People’s governments at all levels should take effective measures to guide the masses to abandon feudal superstitious funeral customs and implement civilized and frugal practices Funeral.

Article 25: Feudal and superstitious funeral activities are prohibited. No one is allowed to engage in feudal and superstitious professional activities during funerals. Those who use superstitious activities to spread rumors to confuse the public and steal property should be punished in accordance with the law.

Article 26: The production and sale of funeral supplies must be reviewed and approved by the local county or municipal civil affairs department, registered with the industrial and commercial administration, and can only operate after obtaining a business license.

Chapter 5 Penalties

Article 27: If a body is buried in a cremation area, the funeral director shall instruct the funeral director to cremate it within a time limit, and the land department shall instruct him to return the illegal remains. If the land is occupied, a fine of 2,000 to 3,000 yuan will be imposed.

Article 28 If a tomb is sold or transferred privately in a cremation area or burial reform area, the funeral and burial authorities and the land and resources department will impose a deposit of 1,000 to 2,000 yuan on each of the buyers and sellers, and confiscate the tombs. its illegal gains.

Article 29 In the burial reform area where a cemetery has been established, if the funeral director buries the body outside the public curtain, the funeral director and the land department will impose a fine of 1,000 to 2,000 yuan per case. *, the remains will be moved to the cemetery for burial within a time limit, and the original landscape will be restored.

Article 30: Those who produce and sell coffins and funeral supplies without a business license shall have their production tools, materials, products and all sales revenue confiscated by the industrial and commercial administration department, and shall impose a fine of 1,000 to 2,000 yuan* **.

Article 31: Those who issue burial certificates for remains that should be cremated in the cremation area shall be held administratively responsible by their units. If a crime is constituted, the judicial authorities shall hold them legally accountable in accordance with the law.

Article 32: If a hospital in a cremation area arbitrarily allows the funeral director to transport the body away for burial, the competent department shall hold it accountable administratively.

Article 33: Confiscated income shall be handled in accordance with the provisions of the "Guangdong Province Regulations on the Management of Confiscated Property".

Article 34 If the party concerned is dissatisfied with the penalty imposed by the penalty enforcement unit, he may apply for administrative reconsideration or file an administrative lawsuit in accordance with the provisions of the "Administrative Reconsideration Regulations" and the "Administrative Procedure Law".

Chapter 6 Supplementary Provisions

Article 35: Each city may formulate implementation details according to the provisions of these Measures.

Article 36 These Measures shall come into effect on October 1, 1994. The "Guangdong Province Funeral Management Implementation Measures" issued by the Provincial People's Government on February 13, 1986 was abolished at the same time.

About funeral culture

Funeral culture is formed and settled in the process of social development. It concentrates people’s understanding of death, the value of survival, human nature and family affection, etc. about human beings. Conclusions drawn from thinking about origin issues. Perhaps the answer will never be satisfactory, so we have been constantly thinking and exploring. The never-ending thinking and exploration is the process of inheriting the traditional funeral culture.

The origin of Chinese funeral culture can be traced back to the Late Paleolithic Age. The remains of the cavemen on the top of the mountain were sprinkled with red powder containing hematite, and were buried with decorations such as drilled animal teeth, stone beads, and bone pendants. This is almost the earliest and most primitive burial. With the development of history, classes emerged, and the “three, six, nine, and nine grades” of class are also reflected in funeral culture, which is reflected in cemeteries, burial furniture, and funerary objects. Peking Man regarded the upper level of the cave as the living room and the lower level as the cemetery of the dead. The scale and luxury of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum is like a palace city map, which takes the funeral custom of "death as life" to the extreme. Until the Ming and Qing dynasties, funeral rites had become a set of grand and complicated funeral rites.

Throughout the burial period, burial was mainly carried out to prevent the deceased from being eaten by wild beasts, and also to provide the deceased with eternal rest and burial. The reason why Chinese people are so keen on burial is that they are very dependent on and nostalgic for the land. In addition, people also believe that burying ancestors on the land provides another space for the deceased to move. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, our country has begun to gradually implement "cremation". With the development of social economy, material and cultural life continues to enrich, and people gradually upgrade from meeting basic life requirements to meeting spiritual needs. The funeral industry has also gradually risen from meeting people's basic needs for body disposal to meeting people's spiritual needs.