California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 1 - Duty of Registering Death

• Section 102775.
  Each death shall be registered with the local registrar of births and deaths in the district in which the death was officially pronounced or the...
• Section 102778.
  (a)  On or before January 1, 2005, the department shall implement an Internet-based electronic death registration system for the creation, storage, and transfer of death...
• Section 102780.
  A funeral director, or person acting in lieu thereof, shall prepare the certificate and register it with the local registrar.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415,...
• Section 102785.
  The State Registrar, at his or her discretion, may incorporate computer or telephone facsimile technology, or both, in the statewide program of death and fetal...
• Section 102790.
  The funeral director shall obtain the required information other than medical and health section data from the person or source best qualified to supply this...
• Section 102791.
  (a) The State Department of Public Health shall access data within the electronic death registration system implemented pursuant to Section 102778 to compile a report on...
• Section 102795.
  The medical and health section data and the time of death shall be completed and attested to by the physician and surgeon last in attendance,...
• Section 102800.
  The medical and health section data and the physician’s or coroner’s certification shall be completed by the attending physician within 15 hours after the death,...
• Section 102805.
  An embalmer may authorize his or her signature to be affixed to the certificate after he or she has embalmed a body, as required by...

Last modified: October 22, 2018