1. (1) A local registrar must immediately notify the department, orally or in writing, whenever:

   1. (a) the registrar has received a completed dead body removal authorization form for a decedent but does not receive a death or fetal death certificate, whichever is appropriate, for the same decedent within 10 days after the death occurred or was discovered.
   2. (b) the registrar has received a death or fetal death certificate for a decedent but has not received a dead body removal authorization form for that same decedent.

Authorizing statute(s): Sec. 50-15-102, MCA

Implementing statute(s): Sec. 50-15-106, MCA

History: NEW, 1993 MAR p. 3023, Eff. 1/1/94; TRANS, from DHES, 1997 MAR p. 1460.