PENNSYLVANIA, June 15 - within which such crematory [furnace or place is situate] is

located.

Section 2. Before such permit shall be granted, every person

applying therefor, shall deposit and file in the office of such

[board or] department of health or local health [authorities]

authority, a certificate signed [in ink by the physician

attending during the last illness of such deceased person, (or

the certificate of the coroner), and the undertaker and

proprietor or person in charge of such crematory, furnace or

place, setting forth the decedent's name, age, sex, birthplace,

color, last residence by ward, street and number, if such

residence was in a city, otherwise as nearly as may be, the time

of residence therein, the place of last previous residence, the

cause, place and time of death, the place, date and hour of the

intended cremation or incineration, and, when practicable, the

names of the father and mother of deceased.] by the coroner and

the crematory operator setting forth the individual's name, age,

gender, residence, the cause, place and time of death and the

date and hour of the intended cremation.

Section 2. The act is amended by adding a section to read:

Section 2.1. A crematory operator must maintain a one-hour

average temperature of at least one thousand six hundred degrees

Fahrenheit in the cremation chamber, with a minimum residence

time for combustion gases of at least one second, when remains

are being cremated.

Section 3. Section 3 of the act is amended to read:

Section 3. Any person wilfully violating any of the

provisions of this act or being present at, helping or assisting

in any cremation [or incineration] of any human corpse where a

permit has not been previously obtained in conformity with and

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