410 IAC 18-1-3 Permit for transportation or disposition of body; exceptions to use of provisional notification

Sec. 3. The delivery of a provisional notification of death and its acceptance by a local health officer authorized to use the same, shall entitle the person in charge of interment to a permit for transportation or disposition, or both, of the body except that a provisional notification of death shall not be used if disposition of the body is by cremation. If the circumstances suggest that the death is due to other than natural causes, permission of the coroner must be obtained prior to removal of the body or preparation of the body for burial. Upon use of a provisional notification of death, the person in charge of interment shall present to the local health officer of the jurisdiction in which the death occurred or the body was found, a properly executed certificate of death within seven (7) days of the date of death or discovery of the body.