Code of Colorado Regulations
1000 - Department of Public Health and Environment
1006 - Center for Health and Environmental Data (1006, 1009 Series)
5 CCR 1006-1 - VITAL STATISTICS
Section 7 - DELAYED REGISTRATION OF DEATH
Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 17, September 10, 2024
The registration of a death after the time prescribed by statutes and regulations shall be registered in the form and manner prescribed below:
A. If the attending physician or coroner at the time of death, and the attending funeral director or person who acted as such, are available to complete and sign the certificate of death, it may be completed without additional evidence and filed with the State Registrar. For those certificates filed one year or more after the date of death, the physician or coroner, and the funeral director or person who acted as such, must state in accompanying affidavits that the information on the record is based on records kept in their files.
B. In the absence of the attending physician or coroner and the funeral director or person who acted as such, the report may be filed by the next of kin of the decedent and shall be accompanied by:
In all cases, the State Registrar may require additional documentary evidence to prove the facts of death.
A summary statement of the evidence submitted in support of the delayed registration shall be endorsed on the certificate.
