Section 319 in Chennai City Municipal Corporation Act, 1919
319. Licensing of places for disposal of dead.
(1)No new place for the disposal of the dead, whether public or private, shall be opened, formed, constructed, or used unless a licence has been obtained from the commissioner on application.(2)Such application for a licence shall be accompanied by a plan of the place to be registered, showing the locality, boundaries and extent thereof the name of the owner or person or community interested therein, the system of management and such further particulars as the commissioner may require.(3)The commissioner may, with the sanction of the council,-(a)grant or refuse a licence, or(b)postpone the grant of a licence until his objections to the site have been removed or any particulars called for by him have been furnished.
