N.D. Cent. Code § 23-06-09
The funeral practitioner, or individual acting as funeral practitioner, shall secure the final disposition-transit permit from the subregistrar. The funeral practitioner, or person acting as funeral practitioner, shall deliver such permit to the sexton or person in charge of the place of final disposition before interring the body, cremating the body, donating the body to a medical school, or otherwise disposing of the body as authorized by law, or shall attach it to the box containing the corpse when the same is shipped by any transportation company. Such permit must be accepted by the sexton or person in charge as authority for the final disposition of the body. A body may not be accepted for carriage by a common carrier unless the permit is attached as required in this section.
N.D.C.C. § 23-06-09