North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 10A - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 41 - EPIDEMIOLOGY HEALTH
Subchapter H - VITAL RECORDS
Section .0500 - DEATH REGISTRATION
Section 41H .0504 - NO DEATH CERTIFICATE FOR MISSING PERSONS

No death certificate shall be filed nor shall any death certificate be accepted for filing by a local registrar or the State Registrar unless there is a body or some remains such as ashes or decomposed organic substance determined to be human. Deaths in which bodies are lost in lakes, rivers, and oceans may not be registered until and unless the body is recovered.

Authority G.S. 130A-92(7);
Eff. February 1, 1976;
Readopted Eff. November 15, 1977;
Pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without substantive public interest Eff. December 22, 2018.