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The 1910 Vital Statistics Law and its 1922 Amendment – Undertaker Edition

Rules and Regulations for Burial or Removal of Dead Bodies When a person dies in a local registrar’s district, it becomes the duty of the undertaker or person acting as such to procure a death certificate or a provisional death certificate if death occurs outside of the incorporated city or town; he secures the information…

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