Wis. Admin. Code § DHS 135.03 – Responsibility for notification of death.

(1) When a person dies, the funeral director or, if a funeral director is not involved, a member of the immediate family of the deceased, shall present or mail a completed death certificate to the local registrar in the registration district where death was pronounced within 9 days after the date of pronouncement of death.
(2) For a stillbirth resulting from miscarriage and of a gestational age 20 weeks or more or weighing 350 grams or more, the hospital, clinic or midwife or, if a hospital, clinic or midwife was not involved with the delivery, a parent, shall within 5 days after the delivery mail a completed fetal death report to the local registrar in the registration district where the delivery took place.

History: Cr. Register, January, 1993, No. 445, eff. 2-1-93.