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