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2020 Indiana Code
Title 16. Health
Article 37. Vital Statistics
Chapter 3. Certificates of Death and Stillbirth; Burial Permits
16-37-3-5. Electronically Filing Death Certificate; Cause of Death Certification

Universal Citation: IN Code § 16-37-3-5 (2020)
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     Note: This version of section effective until 1-1-2021. See also following version of this section, effective 1-1-2021.

Sec. 5. Except as provided in IC 16-37-1-3.1(f), if the person in charge of interment initiates the process, the person in charge of interment shall electronically provide a certificate of death to the physician last in attendance upon the deceased. The physician last in attendance upon the deceased shall electronically certify to the local health department the cause of death on the certificate of death, using the Indiana death registration system.

[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-17-3.]

As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.20. Amended by P.L.61-2009, SEC.9; P.L.156-2011, SEC.37; P.L.122-2012, SEC.4; P.L.138-2019, SEC.10.

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