26:6-8 Duty to furnish particulars; verification.

26:6-8. In the execution of a death certificate, the personal particulars shall be obtained by the funeral director from the person best qualified to supply them. The death and last sickness particulars shall be supplied by the attending, covering, or resident physician; or if there is no attending, covering, or resident physician, by an attending registered professional nurse licensed by the New Jersey Board of Nursing under P.L.1947, c.262 (C.45:11-23 et seq.); or if there is no attending, covering, or resident physician or attending registered professional nurse, by the county or intercounty medical examiner or assistant county or intercounty medical examiner.

Within a reasonable time, not to exceed 24 hours after the pronouncement of death, the attending, covering, or resident physician, the attending advanced practice nurse pursuant to section 10 of P.L.1991, c.377 (C.45:11-49), or the county or intercounty medical examiner or the assistant county or intercounty medical examiner shall execute the death certification. The burial particulars shall be supplied by the funeral director. The attending, covering, or resident physician, the attending advanced practice nurse, the attending registered professional nurse, or the county or intercounty medical examiner or the assistant county or intercounty medical examiner and the funeral director shall certify to the particulars supplied by them by signing their names below the list of items furnished, or by otherwise authenticating their identities and the information that they have provided through the NJ-EDRS. If a person acting under the direct supervision of the Chief State Medical Examiner, Deputy Chief State Medical Examiner, a county or intercounty medical examiner or the assistant county or intercounty medical examiner, funeral director, attending, covering, or resident physician, attending advanced practice nurse, or licensed health care facility or other public or private institution providing medical care, treatment, or confinement to persons, which is registered with the NJ-EDRS, is not authorized to authenticate the information required on a certificate of death or fetal death, that person may enter that information into the NJ-EDRS in anticipation of its authentication by the Chief State Medical Examiner, Deputy Chief State Medical Examiner, or a county or intercounty medical examiner or the assistant county or intercounty medical examiner, funeral director, attending, covering, or resident physician, attending advanced practice nurse, local registrar, deputy registrar, alternate deputy registrar or subregistrar, as applicable.

amended 1965, c.78, s.6; 1971, c.2, s.13; 1983, c.308, s.2; 2003, c.221, s.5; 2015, c.38, s.1; 2018, c.62, s.25.