(A) There shall be provided in each nursing home, sheltered care home or home for the aged a suitable room or area, approved by the Health Department, for the proper care of the dead pending their removal after being pronounced dead by a duly licensed physician of the state.
(B) No person acting as superintendent or manager, or who is otherwise in charge or control of any nursing home, sheltered care home or home for the aged, nor any person connected with any such home, in any capacity whatsoever as a nurse, physician or attendant, shall order, permit or allow the body of any resident or person who has been under care in the home, and who has died therein, to be removed from the home at any time within 24 hours after the hour of death, unless the removal of the body is authorized, in writing, by some member of the immediate family of the deceased person or by some other person legally authorized to order or permit the removal. No body shall be kept at any such home longer than 36 hours after death without permission from the Department.
(2000 Code, § 5.40.150) Penalty, see § 115.99