THE HAMBURG BURIAL SAGA CONTINUES. If you came in late, the Hamburg family buried the late Carrie Hamburg on the family’s 46 acre home site southwest of Ukiah. Mendocino County’s Department of Health did not, and could not under California law, issue a burial certificate because home burials are prohibited under California law. Supervisor Hamburg’s attorney, Barry Vogel of Ukiah, filed suit in Superior Court Monday, citing, among other things, the state’s health and safety code, which says: “If the certificate of death is properly executed and complete, the local registrar of births and deaths shall issue a permit for disposition, that in all cases, shall specify any one of the following: (1) The name of the cemetery where the remains shall be interred; (2) Burial at sea (3) The address or description of the place where remains shall be buried or scattered (4) The address of the location where the cremated remains will be kept.”
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