North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 10A - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 44 - POSTMORTEM MEDICOLEGAL EXAMINATION
Section .0500 - MEDICAL EXAMINER'S INVESTIGATION
Section 44 .0501 - INVESTIGATION BEFORE CREMATION OR BURIAL AT SEA
Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 6, September 16, 2024
(a) Before a dead body may be cremated or buried at sea, a medical examiner must certify that the medical examiner has investigated the cause and manner of death and determined that no further examination is necessary. Such certification is not required if the death falls under one of the exceptions in G.S. 130A-388 or under one of the following exceptions:
(b) When a medical examiner makes a certification pursuant to this Rule, the person requesting the certification shall pay a fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) to the medical examiner. However, no fee shall be charged for the investigation of a death that comes within the jurisdiction of the Chief Medical Examiner pursuant to G.S. 130A-383 or G.S. 130A-384. For the purposes of this Section, deaths in association with medically unattended deliveries, or delivery by a midwife who is approved pursuant to G.S. 90-178.1 et seq., are considered to fall within the jurisdiction of the Chief Medical Examiner pursuant to G.S. 130A-383 and G.S. 130A-384.
Authority
G.S.
130A-388;
130A-393;
Eff. July
1, 1979;
Amended Eff. October 1, 1989; October 1, 1986; October 1,
1984; January 1, 1984;
Transferred and Recodified from
10 NCAC
11 .0705 Eff. April 4, 1990;
Amended Eff. August 1, 2000;
Pursuant to
G.S.
150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without
substantive public interest Eff. December 23,
2017.
