Section 29-2824. RETENTION AND ACCESS TO RECORDS RELATED TO VITAL RECORDS

 

2824.1Each funeral director shall maintain a record of each dead body or fetus which he or she handles.

 

2824.2Each record listed under § 2824.1 shall be indexed alphabetically and by date of death and shall contain the following information:

 

(a)The date, place, time of receipt and manner of disposition;

 

(b)The date of delivery if the dead body or fetus is delivered to another funeral director and the name and address of the funeral director to whom delivered; and

 

(c)All information required by the certificate of death for those death certificates that the funeral director filed.

 

2824.3Medical records pertaining to births or deaths shall be retained by each health care facility for a minimum of five (5) years.

 

2824.4Each health care facility with a delivery room shall maintain a permanent delivery room log containing information about each infant delivered in the hospital and the infant’s mother.

 

2824.5Entries of each birth in the delivery room log shall be made immediately upon an infant’s delivery.

 

2824.6Each health care institution shall maintain a permanent log of deaths which shall include the name of the deceased, the date of death, and the name and address of the person removing the body from the institution.

 

2824.7The records and logs required by this section shall be available for review by the Registrar.

 

source

Final Rulemaking published at 38 DCR 781, 798 (January 25, 1991).