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Tit. VI, Ch. 11. VITAL STATISTICS § 1376-a9.
3 such death, and when so notified the registrar shall, prior to the issu-
4 anee of the nermit, inform the local health officer and refer the case
5 to him for immediate investigation and certification; provided, that
6 when the local health officer is not a physician, or when^ there is no
7 such official, and in such cases only, the registrar is authorized to
8 make the certificate and return from the statement of relatives or
9 other persons having adequate knowledge of the facts. If the regis-
10 trar has reason to believe that the death may have been due to unlaw-
11 ful act or neglect, he shall then refer the case to the coroner or other
12 proper officer for his investigation and certification. The coroner or
13 other proper officer whose duty it is to hold an inquest on the body
14 of any deceased person, and to make the certificate of death required
15 for a burial permit, shall state in his certificate the name of the dis-
16 ease causing death, or if from external causes, the means of death
17 and whether (probably) accidental, suicidal, or homicidal; and shall,
18 in either case, furnish such information as may be required by the
19 state registrar in order to classify the death.
[39 G. A., ch. 222, § 8.]
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SEC. 1376-a9. Duty of undertaker—record "of sales of caskets—
casket to contain blanks.
The undertaker, or person acting as undertaker, shall obtain from
and file the certificate of death with the local registrar of the district
in which the death occurred, and shall procure from him a burial or
removal permit, prior to any disnosition of the body. He shall obtain
the required personal and statistical particulars from the person best
qualified to supply them, over the signature and address of his
informant. He shall then present the certificate to the attending physician,
if any, or to the health officer or coroner, as directed by the
local registrar for the medical certificate of the cause of death and
other particulars necessary to complete the record, as specified in the
two preceding sections. He shall then state the facts required relative
to the date and place of burial or removal, over his signature and
with his address, and present the completed certificate to the local
registrar in order to obtain a permit for burial, removal or other disposition
of the body.
The undertaker shall deliver the burial permit to the person in
charge of the place of burial, before interring or otherwise disposing
of the body ; or shall attach the removal permit to the box containing
the corpse, when shipped by any transportation company ; said permit
to accompany the corpse to its destination, where if within the state
of Iowa, it shall be delivered to the person in charge of the place of
burial.
Every person, firm or corporation selling a casket shall keep a
record showing the name of the purchaser, purchaser's postoffice
address, name of deceased, date and place of death of deceased, which
record shall be open to inspection of the state registrar at all.times.
On the first day of each month the person, firm or corporation selling
caskets shall report to the state registrar each sale for the preceding
month, on a blank provided for that purpose; provided, however, no
person, firm or corporation selling caskets to dealers or undertakers
only shall be required to keep such record, nor shall such reports be
required from undertakers when they have direct charge of the disposition
of a dead body.
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