No person shall bury or cause to be buried within said District the body or part of the body of any deceased person, except in such grounds as were known and used as public or private burial grounds on January 1, 1902, or such as shall thereafter be designated by the Mayor of said District and authorized by him to be used as such.
D.C. Code § 43-121
Place of burial
Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1297, ch. 854, § 678
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