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1     AN ACT concerning health.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Vital Records Act is amended by changing
5 Section 18 as follows:
 
6     (410 ILCS 535/18)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 73-18)
7     Sec. 18. (1) Each death which occurs in this State shall be
8 registered by filing a death certificate with the local
9 registrar of the district in which the death occurred or the
10 body was found, within 10 business 7 days after such death
11 (within 5 days if the death occurs prior to January 1, 1989)
12 and prior to cremation or removal of the body from the State,
13 except when death is subject to investigation by the coroner or
14 medical examiner.
15         (a) For the purposes of this Section, if the place of
16     death is unknown, a death certificate shall be filed in the
17     registration district in which a dead body is found, which
18     shall be considered the place of death.
19         (b) When a death occurs on a moving conveyance, the
20     place where the body is first removed from the conveyance
21     shall be considered the place of death and a death
22     certificate shall be filed in the registration district in
23     which such place is located.

 

 

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1         (c) The funeral director who first assumes custody of a
2     dead body shall be responsible for filing a completed death
3     certificate. He shall obtain the personal data from the
4     next of kin or the best qualified person or source
5     available; he shall enter on the certificate the name,
6     relationship, and address of his informant; he shall enter
7     the date, place, and method of final disposition; he shall
8     affix his own signature and enter his address; and shall
9     present the certificate to the person responsible for
10     completing the medical certification of cause of death.
11     (2) The medical certification shall be completed and signed
12 within 48 hours after death by the physician in charge of the
13 patient's care for the illness or condition which resulted in
14 death, except when death is subject to the coroner's or medical
15 examiner's investigation. In the absence of the physician or
16 with his approval, the medical certificate may be completed and
17 signed by his associate physician, the chief medical officer of
18 the institution in which death occurred or by the physician who
19 performed an autopsy upon the decedent.
20     (3) When a death occurs without medical attendance, or when
21 it is otherwise subject to the coroner's or medical examiner's
22 investigation, the coroner or medical examiner shall be
23 responsible for the completion of a coroner's or medical
24 examiner's certificate of death and shall sign the medical
25 certification within 48 hours after death, except as provided
26 by regulation in special problem cases. If the decedent was

 

 

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1 under the age of 18 years at the time of his or her death, and
2 the death was due to injuries suffered as a result of a motor
3 vehicle backing over a child, or if the death occurred due to
4 the power window of a motor vehicle, the coroner or medical
5 examiner must send a copy of the medical certification, with
6 information documenting that the death was due to a vehicle
7 backing over the child or that the death was caused by a power
8 window of a vehicle, to the Department of Children and Family
9 Services. The Department of Children and Family Services shall
10 (i) collect this information for use by Child Death Review
11 Teams and (ii) compile and maintain this information as part of
12 its Annual Child Death Review Team Report to the General
13 Assembly.
14     (3.5) The medical certification of cause of death shall
15 expressly provide an opportunity for the person completing the
16 certification to indicate that the death was caused in whole or
17 in part by a dementia-related disease, Parkinson's Disease, or
18 Parkinson-Dementia Complex.
19     (4) When the deceased was a veteran of any war of the
20 United States, the funeral director shall prepare a
21 "Certificate of Burial of U. S. War Veteran", as prescribed and
22 furnished by the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs, and
23 submit such certificate to the Illinois Department of Veterans
24 Affairs monthly.
25     (5) When a death is presumed to have occurred in this State
26 but the body cannot be located, a death certificate may be

 

 

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1 prepared by the State Registrar upon receipt of an order of a
2 court of competent jurisdiction which includes the finding of
3 facts required to complete the death certificate. Such death
4 certificate shall be marked "Presumptive" and shall show on its
5 face the date of the registration and shall identify the court
6 and the date of the judgment.
7 (Source: P.A. 93-454, eff. 8-7-03; 94-671, eff. 8-23-05.)
 
8     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
9 becoming law.