CHAPTER 6. Death Registration [102775. - 102938.]

Chapter 6 added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 4.

§§ 102775–102938 · 26 sections

1. ARTICLE 1. Duty of Registering Death §§ 102775–102805 · 10 sections

   • § 102775 Each death shall be registered with the local registrar of births and deaths in the district in which the death was officially pronounced or the body was…
   • § 102778 (a) On or before January 1, 2005, the department shall implement an Internet-based electronic death registration system for the creation, storage, and transfer…
   • § 102780 A funeral director, or person acting in lieu thereof, shall prepare the certificate and register it with the local registrar.
   • § 102785 The State Registrar, at his or her discretion, may incorporate computer or telephone facsimile technology, or both, in the statewide program of death and fetal…
   • § 102790 The funeral director shall obtain the required information other than medical and health section data from the person or source best qualified to supply this…
   • § 102791 (a) (1) The State Department of Public Health shall access data within the electronic death registration system implemented pursuant to Section 102778 to…
   • § 102792 (a) (1) The State Department of Public Health shall access data within the electronic death registration system implemented pursuant to Section 102778 to…
   • § 102795 (a) The medical and health section data and the time of death shall be completed and attested to by the physician and surgeon or nurse practitioner last in…
   • § 102800 (a) The medical and health section data and the physician’s, nurse practitioner’s, or coroner’s certification shall be completed by the attending physician or…
   • § 102805 An embalmer may authorize his or her signature to be affixed to the certificate after he or she has embalmed a body, as required by this chapter, by a written…
2. ARTICLE 2. Responsibility of Attending Physician § 102825 · 1 section

   • § 102825 (a) The physician and surgeon or nurse practitioner last in attendance, or in the case of a patient in a skilled nursing or intermediate care facility at the…
3. ARTICLE 3. Responsibility of Coroner §§ 102850–102870 · 5 sections

   • § 102850 (a) A physician and surgeon, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, funeral director, or other person shall immediately notify the coroner if they have…
   • § 102855 The coroner whose duty it is to investigate such deaths shall ascertain as many as possible of the facts required by this chapter.
   • § 102860 The coroner shall state on the certificate of death the disease or condition directly leading to death, antecedent causes, other significant conditions…
   • § 102865 In any case involving an infant under the age of one year where the gross autopsy results in a presumed diagnosis of sudden infant death syndrome, the coroner…
   • § 102870 (a) In deaths investigated by the coroner or medical examiner where he or she is unable to establish the identity of the body or human remains by visual means,…
4. ARTICLE 4. Content of Certificate of Death § 102875 · 1 section

   • § 102875 The certificate of death shall be divided into two sections: (a) The first section shall contain those items necessary to establish the fact of the death,…
5. ARTICLE 5. American Indians §§ 102900–102925 · 5 sections

   • § 102900 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Birth and death certificate-linking studies done by the department in 1974 and repeated in 1984,…
   • § 102905 (a) The Rural Health Division of the department shall cause to be undertaken a three-year study for the purpose of establishing more valid statistics regarding…
   • § 102910 For the purpose of conducting the three-year study required pursuant to Section 102905, the department is hereby encouraged to contract with a federally…
   • § 102915 The study shall be conducted in three phases, as follows: (a) Phase one of the study shall include research design and data acquisition, including funds for…
   • § 102925 The state department shall begin to implement the activities referred to in Sections 102905, 102910, 102915, and 102920 only upon an appropriation for the…
6. ARTICLE 6. Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Collection Pilot Program §§ 102935–102938 · 4 sections

   • § 102935 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) There is a lack of understanding about the relationship between risk of violent death, such as…
   • § 102936 (a) The department shall establish a three-year pilot program in up to six counties that agree to participate, for the identification and collection by…
   • § 102937 (a) The coroner or medical examiner shall begin data collection upon completion of the training. For each year of the pilot program, the data shall be…
   • § 102938 This article shall become inoperative on the date the State Public Health Officer certifies that the final year of data from the pilot program has been…