TITLE 23
Health and Safety
CHAPTER 23-3
Vital Records
SECTION 23-3-19
§ 23-3-19 Extension of time.
(a) The director of health may, by regulation and upon conditions that he or
she may prescribe to assure compliance with the purposes of this chapter,
provide for the extension of the periods prescribed in §§ 23-3-16,
23-3-17, and 23-3-18 for the filing of death certificates, fetal death
certificates, medical certifications of cause of death, and for the obtaining
of burial-transit permits in cases in which compliance with the applicable
prescribed period would result in undue hardship.
(b) Regulations of the director of health may provide for the
issuance of a burial-transit permit under § 23-3-18 prior to the filing of
a certificate of death or fetal death upon conditions designed to assure
compliance with the purposes of this chapter in cases in which compliance with
the requirement that the certificate be filed prior to the issuance of the
permit would result in undue hardship.
History of Section.
(P.L. 1961, ch. 87, § 1.)
