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16 Pa.C.S. § 13926: Certificate of cause of death.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 16 - COUNTIES
- PART IV COUNTIES OF THE SECOND CLASS A THROUGH EIGHTH CLASS
- CHAPTER 139 CORONER
- SUBCHAPTER B GENERAL PROVISIONS
A coroner shall issue a certificate of cause of death in each case:
(1) referred to the coroner by the local registrar of vital statistics under the act of June 29, 1953 (P.L.304, No.66), known as the Vital Statistics Law of 1953; or
(2) in which the coroner has jurisdiction and no individual duly authorized by law certifies the cause of death.
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