{"data":{"id":"us-nh/rsa-290-1-b","jurisdiction":"us-nh","citation":"RSA 290:1-b","heading":"Pronouncement of Death by Registered Nurses.","body":"If an anticipated death occurs in a hospital, a nursing home, a private home served by a home health care provider licensed under RSA 151, an assisted living residence as defined in RSA 161-J:2, II, or a hospice, the registered nurse attending at the last sickness may pronounce the person dead and release the body to the funeral director, next-of-kin as defined in RSA 290:16, IV, or designated agent after certifying the fact of death and completing the death record by hand or other approved electronic process. If a contagious disease is known to be present at the time of death, that fact shall be indicated on the death record in accordance with RSA 5-C:62.","path":["Title XXVI: CEMETERIES; BURIALS; DEAD BODIES","Chapter 290: BURIALS AND DISINTERMENTS"],"source_url":"https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXVI/290/290-1-b.htm","current_through":"2025 regular legislative session, or December 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T14:48:59Z","sha256":"d5e2512693c8fdc8fe18bf0174e2fffea5fe1680b132f91cb9d3030bdabfad0c","source_id":"us-nh","stale":false,"prev":"us-nh/rsa-290-1-a","next":"us-nh/rsa-290-2"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}