Current through codified legislation effective September 18, 2024
Section 7-231.06 - Duties to furnish information(a) An individual with knowledge of the facts related to a reportable vital event shall furnish any information that he or she may possess to the Registrar within 5 days of a request by the Registrar.(b) No later than the 10th day of each month, the individual in charge of each institution, or his delegate, shall send to the Vital Records Division a list showing each live birth, death, fetal death, or induced termination of pregnancy that occurred at that institution during the preceding month. The list shall be in a format prescribed by the Registrar in rules issued pursuant to § 7-231.29.(c) No later than the 10th day of each month, each funeral director shall send to the Registrar a list showing each dead body received, embalmed, prepared for final disposition, or finally disposed of in the preceding month. The list shall be in a format prescribed by the Registrar in rules issued pursuant to § 7-231.29 and shall also include a record of the date, place, and manner of final disposition of each dead body, if applicable.(d) Within 5 days of receipt of any autopsy results or other information that would provide pending or missing information or correct errors in a reported cause of death, the physician or medical examiner required to report the death shall send to the Registrar a delayed diagnosis report of the cause of death to amend the record.Oct. 30, 2018, D.C. Law 22-164, § 106, 65 DCR 9324.