(a) The Committee shall be notified of all skeletal remains determined to be Native American within 5 days of discovery. Within 60 days of notification, the Director shall provide the Committee with a written plan for the treatment and ultimate disposition of the Native American skeletal remains.
(b) The Director shall publish notice of all excavations of human skeletal remains other than Native American, at least once per week for 2 successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where the burials or skeletal remains were situated, in an effort to determine the identity or next-of-kin or both of the deceased. Treatment and ultimate disposition of the skeletal remains shall be subject to the written permission of the next-of-kin who notify the Director within 30 days of the last published notice. The Director shall provide next-of-kin with a written plan for treatment and ultimate disposition of human skeletal remains.
(c) All skeletal analysis conducted pursuant to this subchapter shall be undertaken only by a skeletal analyst as defined in § 5402(6) of this title.
(d) Any previously excavated skeletal remains of Native Americans of the State which are on display or remain uncovered as of June 5, 1987, shall be reinterred within 1 year. Treatment and disposition of all Native American remains discovered after enactment shall be determined by the Committee or, if direct descent can be determined, by the next-of-kin. In any event, Native American skeletal remains discovered after enactment shall be reinterred within 90 days unless an extension is granted by the Committee. Ultimate disposition of all non-Native American remains shall be determined by the next-of-kin, if known. If next-of-kin are unknown, disposition shall be determined by the Director. All costs associated with reinterment of human skeletal remains must be borne by the next-of-kin, if known.
(e) Any state agency which is responsible, either directly or indirectly, for the unearthing of human remains deemed to be the responsibility of the Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs shall be responsible for the cost of reinterment of those remains.
66 Del. Laws, c. 38, § 1; 68 Del. Laws, c. 290, § 84; 75 Del. Laws, c. 153, §§ 4, 7.
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