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2020 New Hampshire Revised Statutes
Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies
Title 290 - Burials and Disinterments
Section 290:2-a - Release of Body.
Universal Citation: NH Rev Stat § 290:2-a (2020)
290:2-a Release of Body. –
No dead body of a human being shall be removed from a hospital, a nursing home, a private home served by a home health care provider licensed under RSA 151, or a hospice without a pronouncement of death certified by hand or other approved electronic process by a physician or a registered nurse in accordance with RSA 290:1-b, including the time and date of death. Whenever a contagious disease is involved, the death record shall so state before the body shall be released from the facility.
Source. 1986, 22:1. 1989, 10:2. 1997, 325:11, eff. Aug. 22, 1997.
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