Mich. Admin. Code R. 325.4 - Removal of body from incorporated or unincorporated area; death or stillbirth certificate; burial-transit permit; duty of county clerk

Rule 4.

(1) When a mortuary science or funeral director licensee is called upon to remove a body from an incorporated or unincorporated area, the mortuary science or funeral director licensee may remove the body for the purpose of caring for it but is required to file a completed death or stillbirth certificate and secure a burial-transit permit within 72 hours from the local registrar of the incorporated or unincorporated area in which the death occurred.

(2) If a death occurs in an unincorporated area, when a Sunday or a holiday or both, or when an immediate internment, cremation, or shipment makes it impossible to obtain a burial-transit permit by mail, a mortuary science or funeral director licensee may issue a burial-transit permit to him or herself, provided that the envelope in which the completed death or stillbirth certificate is mailed to the county clerk in whose jurisdiction the death occurred is postmarked within the 72 hours after the death occurred.

(3) If for any other reason a burial-transit permit has not been received by mail in time for the interment, cremation, or shipment, the mortuary science or funeral director licensee may issues a burial-transit permit to him or herself, provided that the envelope is which the completed death or stillbirth certificate was mailed to the county clerk in whose jurisdiction the death occurred is postmarked within the 72 hours after the death occurred.

(4) When a county clerk receives a death or stillbirth certificate from his or her primary registration district by mail, he or she shall enter on the certificate, as the date of filing, the date on which the certificate or certificates were received and shall also enter beneath the date of filing the postdate appearing on the envelope in which the certificate or certificates arrived.

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Mich. Admin. Code R. 325.4

2016 MR 24, Eff. 2/4/2016