Full Text of HB2241 95th General Assembly
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| AN ACT concerning health.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 |
| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Vital Records Act is amended by changing | 5 |
| Section 18 as follows:
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| (410 ILCS 535/18) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 73-18)
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| 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
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| medical examiner.
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| (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.
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| (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
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| which such place is located.
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| (c) The funeral director who first assumes
custody of a | 2 |
| dead body shall be responsible for filing a completed death
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| 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;
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| present the certificate to the person responsible for | 10 |
| completing
the medical certification of cause of death.
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| (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
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| the institution in which death occurred or by the physician who
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| performed an autopsy upon the decedent.
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| (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
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| examiner's certificate of death and shall sign the medical
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| certification within 48 hours after death, except as provided | 26 |
| by regulation
in special problem cases. If the decedent was |
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| 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.
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| (3.5) The medical certification of cause of death shall | 15 |
| expressly provide
an
opportunity for the person completing the
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| 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.
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| (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,
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| submit such certificate to the Illinois Department of Veterans | 24 |
| Affairs
monthly.
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| (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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| 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
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| and the date of the judgment.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-454, eff. 8-7-03; 94-671, eff. 8-23-05.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 9 |
| becoming law.
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