Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 15 - Mississippi Department of Health
Part 5 - Office of Health Informatics
Subpart 85 - Public Health Statistics
Chapter 4 - Registration of Deaths
Subchapter 2 - Who Shall Certify
Rule 15-5-85-4.2.1 - Certification of death

Universal Citation: MS Code of Rules 15-5-85-4.2.1

Current through September 24, 2024

1. The physician in charge of the decedent's care shall certify to the cause of death if death does not affect the public interest.

2. The medical examiner shall certify cause in deaths affecting the public interest. A death affecting the public interest is defined by Sections 41-61-53(e) and 41-6159 of the Mississippi Code of 1972, Annotated.

3. Where an attending physician refuses to sign a certificate of death, or in case of any death affecting the public interest, the State Medical Examiner or properly qualified designee shall sign the death certificate

4. In any case where doubt exists as to who shall certify, the medical examiner shall certify the death.

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-1; Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-7; Miss. Code Ann. § 41-61-53(e); Miss. Code Ann. § 41-61-59; Miss. Code Ann. § 41-61-63

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