A. The department may, by regulation and upon conditions as it may prescribe to assure compliance with the purposes of the Vital Statistics Act, provide for the extension of the periods prescribed in Sections 24-14-20, 24-14-22 and 24-14-23 NMSA 1978 for the filing of death certificates, spontaneous fetal death reports, medical certifications of cause of death and for the obtaining of burial-transit permits in cases where compliance with the applicable prescribed period would result in undue hardship.
B. Regulations of the department may provide for the issuance of a burial-transit permit prior to the filing of a certificate upon conditions designed to assure compliance with the purposes of the Vital Statistics Act in cases where compliance with the requirement that the certificate be filed prior to the issuance of the permit would result in undue hardship.
History: 1953 Comp., § 12-4-44, enacted by Laws 1961, ch. 44, § 22; 1973, ch. 264, § 11; 1977, ch. 253, § 32; 1981, ch. 309, § 18.
Cross references. — For death certificates, see 24-14-20 NMSA 1978.
For spontaneous fetal death reports, see 24-14-22 NMSA 1978.
For burial-transit permits, see 24-14-23 NMSA 1978.
For issuance of death certificates subsequent to medical investigations, see 24-11-6 NMSA 1978.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 24 - Health and Safety
Section 24-14-1 - Short title.
Section 24-14-2 - Definitions.
Section 24-14-3 - Vital records and health statistics bureau; state system.
Section 24-14-4 - State registrar; appointment.
Section 24-14-5 - Duties of state registrar.
Section 24-14-7 - Appointment and removal of local registrars.
Section 24-14-8 - Duties of local registrar.
Section 24-14-9 to 24-14-11 - Repealed.
Section 24-14-12 - Form and contents of certificates and reports.
Section 24-14-13 - Birth registration.
Section 24-14-14 - Unknown parentage; foundling registration.
Section 24-14-15 - Delayed registration of births.
Section 24-14-16 - Judicial procedure to establish facts of birth.
Section 24-14-18 - Report of induced abortions.
Section 24-14-19 - Adoption of foreign-born; certificate of birth.
Section 24-14-20 - Death registration.
Section 24-14-21 - Delayed registration of death.
Section 24-14-22 - Reports of spontaneous fetal death.
Section 24-14-22.1 - Certificates of still birth.
Section 24-14-23 - Permits; authorization for final disposition.
Section 24-14-24 - Extension of time.
Section 24-14-25 - Correction and amendment of vital records.
Section 24-14-26 - Reproduction of records.
Section 24-14-27 - Disclosure of records.
Section 24-14-28 - Copies or data from the system of vital statistics.
Section 24-14-29 - Fees for copies and searches.
Section 24-14-29.1 - Day-care fund created; use; appropriation.