§ 130A-117. Persons required to keep records and provide information. - North Carolina Statutes

§130A‑117.  Persons required to keep records and provide information.

(a)        All persons incharge of hospitals or other institutions, public or private, to which personsresort for confinement or treatment of diseases or to which persons arecommitted by process of law, shall make a record of personal data concerningeach person admitted or confined to the institution. The record shall includeinformation required for the certificates of birth and death and the reports ofspontaneous fetal death required by this Article. The record shall be made atthe time of admission from information provided by the person being admitted orconfined. When this information cannot be obtained from this person, it shallbe obtained from relatives or other knowledgeable persons.

(b)        When a dead body ordead fetus of 20 weeks gestation or more is released or disposed of by aninstitution, the person in charge of the institution shall keep a recordshowing the name of the decedent, date of death, name and address of the personto whom the body or fetus is released and the date of removal from theinstitution. If final disposition is made by the institution, the date, place,and manner of disposition shall also be recorded.

(c)        A funeral director,embalmer, or other person who removes from the place of death, transports ormakes final disposition of a dead body or fetus, shall keep a record whichshall identify the body, and information pertaining to the receipt, removal,delivery, burial, or cremation of the body, as may be required by the StateRegistrar. In addition, that person shall file a certificate or other reportrequired by this Article or the rules of the Commission.

(d)        Records maintainedunder this section shall be retained for a period of not less than three yearsand shall be made available for inspection by the State Registrar upon request.(1913, c. 109, s. 16; C.S., s. 7104; 1957, c. 1357, s. 1; 1969, c.1031, s. 1; 1979, c. 95, s. 8; 1983, c. 891, s. 2.)