(a)

1. (1) If the attending physician, medical examiner, or coroner are unable to complete the medical certification of cause of death within the prescribed statutory time period, he or she may indicate that cause of death is “pending” and sign the certification.
2. (2) A supplemental report providing the medical information omitted from the original certificate shall be filed by the certifier with the State Registrar of Vital Records within ninety (90) days.

3. (3)

   1. (A) The supplemental report or reports shall be made a part of the existing death certificate.
   2. (B) Supplemental reports filed after ninety (90) days shall be considered an application to amend the record.
   3. (C) The certificate shall be marked “amended”.

(b)

1. (1) If the funeral home is unable to obtain the personal information about the deceased within the prescribed statutory time period, the funeral director shall file a death certificate form completed with all available information.
2. (2) If information is unavailable, indicate “unknown”.

3. (3)

   1. (A) Within ten (10) days after the State Registrar of Vital Records receives the certificate, the funeral director may make changes to personal information where the change corrects an error made in the registration and filing of the certificate.
   2. (B) Do not mark “amended”.
   3. (C) Amendment of errors to personal information or addition of missing information made ten (10) days after receipt of the original certificate shall be by affidavit and the certificate shall be marked “amended”.
4. (4) The State Registrar of Vital Records may make administrative corrections to certificates within one (1) year without certificate being marked “amended”.

(c)

1. (1) In any case where an autopsy is scheduled and the physician, coroner, or medical examiner wishes to await its gross findings to confirm a tentative clinical finding, he or she shall give the funeral director notice as to when he or she expects to have the medical data necessary for the certification of cause of death.
2. (2) If the provisions of Acts 1995, No. 1254, § 25, cannot be adhered to, he or she shall indicate that the cause is “pending” and sign the certification.
3. (3) Immediately after the medical data necessary for determining the cause of death have been made known, the physician, coroner, or medical examiner shall, over his or her signature, forward the cause of death to the registrar on a form prescribed for that purpose by the State Registrar of Vital Records.