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2019 New Hampshire Revised Statutes
Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies
Chapter 290 - Burials and Disinterments
Section 290:1-b - Pronouncement of Death by Registered Nurses.
Universal Citation: NH Rev Stat § 290:1-b (2019)
290:1-b Pronouncement of Death by Registered Nurses. –
If an anticipated death occurs in a hospital, a nursing home, a private home served by a home health care provider licensed under RSA 151, an assisted living residence as defined in RSA 161-J:2, II, or a hospice, the registered nurse attending at the last sickness may pronounce the person dead and release the body to the funeral director, next-of-kin as defined in RSA 290:16, IV, or designated agent after certifying the fact of death and completing the death record by hand or other approved electronic process. If a contagious disease is known to be present at the time of death, that fact shall be indicated on the death record in accordance with RSA 5-C:62.
Source. 1986, 26:1. 1989, 10:1. 1995, 310:181. 1997, 325:10. 1999, 62:2. 2003, 319:66. 2005, 268:7. 2007, 90:6, eff. June 11, 2007.
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