12 Va. Admin. Code § 5-550-370 - Responsibility of the medical examiner
When a medical examiner assumes jurisdiction in a death or when a medically unattended death occurs without medical attendance a known medical history or information, the medical examiner shall be responsible for executing and signing the medical certification of cause of death as follows:
1. The medical examiner
shall, at the time of releasing a body to a funeral service licensee or person
who first assumes custody of a dead body, or as soon as practicable thereafter,
execute and sign the medical certification of cause of death on the death
certificate form prescribed by the State Registrar.
2. In any case where an autopsy is scheduled
and the medical examiner wishes to await its gross findings to confirm a
tentative clinical finding, he shall give the funeral service licensee notice
as to when he expects to have the medical data necessary for the certification
of cause of death. If the provisions of
12VAC5-550-350 cannot be adhered
to, he shall indicate that the cause is pending and sign the certification.
Immediately after the medical data necessary for determining the cause of death
have been made known, the medical examiner shall, over his signature, forward
the cause of death to the registrar.
3. In any case where a death has been
referred to the medical examiner because a physician in attendance is deceased
or physically incapacitated and there was no associate physician, the medical
examiner shall prepare and sign the medical certification of cause of
death.
Notes
Statutory Authority
§§ 32.1-12 and 32.1-250 of the Code of Virginia.
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