ASSEMBLY, No. 1341

 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

 

Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 1996 SESSION

 

 

By Assemblyman DeCROCE

 

 

An Act concerning the State medical examiner and amending R.S.26:8-52.

 

    Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

    1. R.S.26:8-52 is amended to read as follows:

    26:8-52. Corrections to death certificates shall be signed by the physician, registered professional nurse, county medical examiner, State medical examiner, funeral director or informant, whose name appears upon the certificate; however, any individual having personal knowledge and substantiating documentary proof of the matters sought to be corrected may apply under oath to have the certificate corrected. The authority to sign corrections or amendments to causes or duration of causes of death is restricted to the physician, State medical examiner or county medical examiner.

(cf: P.L.1983, c.308 s.3)

 

    2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

    This bill amends R.S.26:8-52 to allow the State medical examiner to sign off on corrections to death certificates. The bill also gives the State medical examiner the authority to sign off on corrections or amendments to death certificates relating to the causes or duration of causes of death.


 

Allows State medical examiner to sign corrections to death certificates.