§ 4140. Deaths; registration. 1. The death of each person who has died in this state shall be registered immediately and not later than seventy-two hours after death or the finding of a dead human body, by filing with the registrar of the district in which the death occurred or the body was found a […]
§ 4141. Death certificate; form and content. 1. The certificate of death shall contain such information, including but not limited to the decedent’s social security number, and shall be in such form as the commissioner may prescribe. 2. The personal particulars called for shall be furnished by a competent person acquainted with the facts. 3. […]
§ 4141-a. Death certificate; duties of hospital administrator. When a death occurs in a hospital, except in those cases where certificates are issued by coroners or medical examiners, the person in charge of such hospital or his or her designated representative shall promptly present the certificate to the physician or nurse practitioner in attendance, or […]
§ 4142. Death certificate; duties of funeral director. In each case the funeral director, undertaker or person having charge of the body of a deceased person, shall: (a) obtain the personal and statistical particulars required for the certificate of death from a competent person acquainted with the facts and qualified to supply them and enter […]
§ 4143. Deaths without medical attendance; registration. 1. In case of any death occurring without medical attendance, it shall be the duty of the funeral director, undertaker or any other person to whose knowledge the death may come, to give notice of such death to the coroner of the county, or if there be more […]
§ 4144. Deaths; burial and removal permits; transportation of remains. 1. The body of any person whose death occurs in this state, or which shall be found dead herein shall not be interred, deposited in a vault or tomb, cremated or otherwise disposed of, or removed from this state, or be temporarily held pending further […]
§ 4145. Deaths; burial and removal permits; disposition of remains. 1. No person in charge of any premises on which interments, cremations, natural organic reductions or other disposition of the body of a deceased person are made shall inter or permit the interment or other disposition of any body unless it is accompanied by a […]
§ 4146. Deaths; burial permits; interments in certain cemeteries prohibited. 1. Whenever the legislative authority of any municipality shall deem that further interments in any cemetery in such municipality would be detrimental to the public health, it may by resolution direct its clerk to cause a notice to be served upon the person or corporation […]
§ 4147. Deaths; confidentiality of records. The death certificate, burial permit or any other record of death or interment, as defined by article forty-one of this chapter, including but not limited to the name, address or telephone number of the decedent, next of kin or surviving relatives of such decedent, shall not be sold or […]
§ 4148. Electronic death registration system. 1. The department is hereby authorized and directed to design, implement and maintain an electronic death registration system for collecting, storing, recording, transmitting, amending, correcting and authenticating information, as necessary and appropriate to complete a death registration, and to generate such documents as determined by the department in relation […]
