A fetal death certificate for each fetal death which occurs in this state after a gestation period of twenty completed weeks or more shall be filed with the county registrar of the county in which the delivery of the dead fetus occurs, within three days after delivery and prior to final disposition of the fetus. The certificate shall be registered if it has been completed and filed in accordance with this chapter.
If the place of delivery of a dead fetus is unknown, a fetal death certificate shall be filed in the county in which a dead fetus is found, within three days after the fetus is found. If a fetal death occurs in a moving conveyance, a fetal death certificate shall be filed in the county in which the fetus is first removed from the conveyance.
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 2405; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, § 144.20; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 144.29]
88 Acts, ch 1158, §41
Referred to in § 135G.18, 144.35
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