[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 22CFR72.3]

[Page 348]
 
                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 72--DEATHS AND ESTATES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 72.3  Telegraphic notifications of death.

    (a) Use of telegraph. When instructions must be obtained from the 
next of kin or other interested person in the United States as to 
disposition of the remains, notification of death should be sent by 
telegraph to the Department for forwarding. If available to the consular 
officer, the name and address of the next of kin or legal representative 
(Sec. 72.18) should be included in the message. Consular officers at 
posts in Canada and Mexico whose consular districts are contiguous to 
the United States may, in their discretion, communicate directly by 
telegraph with next of kin or legal representative, requesting 
instructions for disposition of the remains.
    (b) Content of notification. All such notifications should state the 
minimum cost of
    (1) Local burial;
    (2) Cremation (if applicable);
    (3) Embalming, preparing and shipping the remains; and
    (4) The maximum period of time before local burial is mandatory.
    (c) Payment of charges. The cost of these initial notifications of 
death by telegraph is a proper charge against offical funds. Subsequent 
telegrams relating to matters for personal decision are normally at the 
expense of interested parties.

[22 FR 10841, Dec. 27, 1957, as amended at 30 FR 4412, Apr. 6, 1965]