In addition, a registration system supervised by the Ministry and the Digital Agency for Public Innovation (ADIP) will be created, where the number of burials, cremations, remains deposited in memorials, re-burials and exhumations must be recorded.
The mayor’s offices will have a main role in the surveillance and control of the pantheons, explained Vargas Solano.
“They are responsible for managing, operating and supervising all cemeteries, public crematoria; They have to supervise, the mayors, the personnel that works in the cemeteries, as well as the control of the activities of the external service providers”, he pointed out.
They will also be responsible for supervising and authorizing the access of all workers, they must also designate an Administrative Unit for supervision and appoint a person responsible for each cemetery in their demarcation.
For its part, the Institute of Expert Services and Forensic Sciences is going to train the workers so that they know how deceased people should be handled.
The new Cemetery Regulation is expected to be published in the Official Gazette next week, then it will also be defined when it comes into force; meanwhile, the initiative to penalize the illegal handling of bodies will be sent to Congress, where it will have to be analyzed in commissions and then be voted on in plenary session.
