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- Jurisdiction
- Michigan - Department of Health and Human Services (State health department) · Michigan
- Level
- State
- Authority
- MCL 333.2253 (recited)
- Issued
- 2020-04-04 Apr. 4, 2020
- Effective
- immediately; 'remains in effect until lifted' (read as 2020-04-04)
- End
- lifted (MI file records the June 2021 rescissions) (read as 2021-06-30)
- In force
- Apr. 4, 2020 to June 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Workplace rulesOther
- Addressees
- funeral directors subject to MCL 333.2843(3)
- attending physicians
- Functions reached
- FH funeral homes (death-record initiation within 24 hours; mandatory electronic filing)
- OF administration
- CB hospitals and physicians as counterparties
- Collection
- State health department orders to licensed settings AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS
Operative words
MCL 333.2843(3) requires funeral directors to certify death records and file those records with the local [registrar]... this timeline must be expedited where COVID-19 is identified as a cause of death.... 2. Where a funeral director learns that a death resulted or is suspected to have resulted from COVID-19, funeral directors subject to MCL 333.2843(3) are required to: a. Initiate the death record and submit to the attending physician or representative as defined in MCL 333.2843(1)(a) within 24 hours of becoming aware that the death resulted or is [suspected to have resulted from COVID-19]... 3. Funeral directors subject to MCL 333.2843(3) must initiate and report all deaths via Michigan's [Electronic Death Registration System]... This order is effective immediately and remains in effect until lifted. Date: April 4, 2020
Enforcement
MCL 333.2261 (misdemeanor)
Notes
One of the two Michigan death-care orders (with 095) named in the cluster assignment.