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Virginia Administrative Code
Title 12. Health
Agency 5. Department of Health
Chapter 550. Board of Health Regulations Governing Vital Records
11/21/2024

12VAC5-550-410. Emergency cases: Filing of death certificates elsewhere.

A. Under the conditions of § 32.1-266 of the Code of Virginia, the following situations are declared to be proper reasons for emergency extensions of time periods for filing a completed death certificate:

1. A completed or pending medical certification is unavailable.

2. Personal data concerning the deceased is temporarily unavailable.

3. The body must be moved immediately out of the Commonwealth.

B. If one or more of the above situations exists and the conditions of subdivision 3 of 12VAC5-550-390 have been complied with by the funeral service licensee when the body is to be moved, any authorized registrar, or registrar's representative, may issue an out-of-state transit permit. Such permit shall be issued upon application by a funeral service licensee and the presentation by the funeral service licensee, over his signature only, of a death certificate form complete in as many known details as possible.

C. The incomplete death certificate form originally furnished to the registrar as outlined in subsection B of this section is to be placed by the funeral service licensee with a completed death certificate as soon as the missing data become known or the medical certification is obtained, or within 10 days, whichever occurs first.

D. Under emergency provisions and the conditions of subdivision 1 c of 12VAC12-550-390, the death certificate may be filed with a registrar other than the registrar at the place of death. When a registrar of an area other than the place of death receives a completed death certificate, he shall not sign nor number the certificate, but shall make a notation in the left-hand margin indicating his name and whether or not an out-of-state permit has been issued. The registrar receiving the death certificate shall immediately forward the death certificate to the city or county registrar at the place of death.

Statutory Authority

§§ 32.1-12 and 32.1-250 of the Code of Virginia.

Historical Notes

Derived from VR355-29-100 § 10.7, eff. April 1, 1995; amended, Virginia Register Volume 19, Issue 26, eff. October 8, 2003.

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