{"data":{"id":"us-dc/d.c.-code-7-231.06","jurisdiction":"us-dc","citation":"D.C. Code § 7-231.06","heading":"Duties to furnish information.","body":"(a)\nAn individual with knowledge of the facts related to a reportable vital event shall furnish any information that he or she may possess to the Registrar within 5 days of a request by the Registrar.\n\n(b)\nNo later than the 10th day of each month, the individual in charge of each institution, or his delegate, shall send to the Vital Records Division a list showing each live birth, death, fetal death, or induced termination of pregnancy that occurred at that institution during the preceding month. The list shall be in a format prescribed by the Registrar in rules issued pursuant to § 7-231.29.\n\n(c)\nNo later than the 10th day of each month, each funeral director shall send to the Registrar a list showing each dead body received, embalmed, prepared for final disposition, or finally disposed of in the preceding month. The list shall be in a format prescribed by the Registrar in rules issued pursuant to § 7-231.29 and shall also include a record of the date, place, and manner of final disposition of each dead body, if applicable.\n\n(d)\nWithin 5 days of receipt of any autopsy results or other information that would provide pending or missing information or correct errors in a reported cause of death, the physician or medical examiner required to report the death shall send to the Registrar a delayed diagnosis report of the cause of death to amend the record.","path":["Title 7. Human Health Care and Safety.","Chapter 2A. Vital Records, 2018."],"source_url":"https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/7-231.06","current_through":"2026-08-20 (D.C. Law 26-175)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-29T05:44:07Z","sha256":"358dc8e4cb47aa00d1e361aeba9a1787b0b672877fc735e71f8480106b025a1b","source_id":"us-dc","stale":false,"prev":"us-dc/d.c.-code-7-231.05","next":"us-dc/d.c.-code-7-231.07"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}