[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Cedarhurst 3-2-1964 as Ch. 13, Art. IV, of the 1964 Code of Ordinances. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Records — See Ch. 192.
Every physician or midwife attending at a birth of a child, or no physician
or midwife being in attendance, the parent or custodian of a child shall cause
a certificate of such birth to be returned within 36 hours thereafter to the
Village Clerk-Treasurer acting as registrar of vital statistics, and said
certificate shall be attested by such physician or midwife, if any, at attendance
or, no physician or midwife being in attendance, by the parent or custodian
of the child.
It shall be the duty of the physician last in attendance upon any person
who may die to fill out a certificate of the date and probable cause of death
and duly certify the same and deliver the certificate to the registrar or
deputy registrar of vital statistics within 24 hours after the death occurs.
In case an inquest is required by law, the coroner or county physician in
charge shall fill out said certificate and, if no physician was in attendance
at the time of death or immediately prior thereto, the appropriate Health
Officer of the county shall fill out and file such certificate.
Every undertaker, sexton or other person having charge of any corpse
shall procure a burial permit from the local registrar or deputy registrar
with whom the certificate of death has been filed, and there shall be no burial
or removal of a corpse until a certificate of death has been filed as required
by law and a burial or transit permit issued.
