When a person, including a transient, dies in the State in other than a State institution and no one appears to make funeral arrangements, the person in charge thereof shall report the death of the person to the nearest Economic Services Division office. (Added 1967, No. 147, § 7, eff. Oct. 1, 1968; amended 1969, No. 130, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1968; 1973, No. 207 (Adj. Sess.), § 7; 2015, No. 71 (Adj. Sess.), § 5.)