§ 63-947. Certificate of death.

A.  The certification of death of any person whose death is investigated under this act shall be made by the Chief Medical Examiner, his designee, or the medical examiner who conducted the investigation, upon a medical examiner death certificate provided by the State Registrar of Vital Statistics.  Such death certificates shall be valid only when signed by a duly appointed medical examiner, the Chief Medical Examiner, or his designee.  Copies of all such certificates shall be forwarded immediately upon receipt by the State Registrar of Vital Statistics to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

B.  Any certification of death by an attending physician may be referred by the State Registrar of Vital Statistics to the Chief Medical Examiner for investigation and the amending of the original certificate of death by the filing of a medical examiner death certificate by the medical examiner or Chief Medical Examiner when the death is determined by the Chief Medical Examiner to be one properly requiring investigation under Section 938 of this title.

C.  Medical examiner death certificates will not be required in cases investigated solely for the purpose of issuing a permit for transport of a body out of state.

D.  The Board of Medicolegal Investigations shall not charge a fee for out-of-state shipment of human remains whenever the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has not been required to conduct an investigation of the death.

Laws 1961, p. 607, § 17; Laws 1972, c. 246, § 16, emerg. eff. April 7, 1972.