2009 Iowa Code
Title 4 - Public Health
Subtitle 2 - Health-Related Activities
CHAPTER 144 - VITAL STATISTICS
144.26 - DEATH CERTIFICATE.

        144.26  DEATH CERTIFICATE.
         1.  A death certificate for each death which occurs in this state
      shall be filed as directed by the state registrar within three days
      after the death and prior to final disposition, and shall be
      registered by the county registrar if it has been completed and filed
      in accordance with this chapter.  A death certificate shall include
      the social security number, if provided, of the deceased person.  All
      information including the certifying physician's name shall be
      typewritten.
         2.  All information included on a death certificate may be
      provided as mutually agreed upon by the division and the child
      support recovery unit, including by automated exchange.
         3.  The county in which a dead body is found is the county of
      death.  If death occurs in a moving conveyance, the county in which
      the dead body is first removed from the conveyance is the county of
      death.
         4. a.  The department shall establish by rule procedures for
      making a finding of presumption of death when no body can be found.
      The department shall also provide by rule the responsibility for
      completing and signing the medical certification of cause of death in
      such circumstances.  The presumptive death certificate shall be in a
      form prescribed by the state registrar and filed in the county where
      the death was presumed to occur.
         b.  The division shall provide for the correction,
      substitution, or removal of a presumptive death certificate when the
      body of the person is later found, additional facts are discovered,
      or the person is discovered to be alive.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [SS15, § 587-b; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 2319; C46, 50, 54, 58,
      62, 66, § 141.3; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, S81, § 144.26; 81 Acts, ch
      64, § 5] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         88 Acts, ch 1158, §40; 97 Acts, ch 159, §14; 97 Acts, ch 175,
      §226; 2002 Acts, ch 1108, §11
         Referred to in § 144.35, 331.611, 633.520