HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(d) The following boards and related statutes and
regulations shall be evaluated by July 1, 1983:

(6)  STATE Board of Examiners for Audiologists
[(Art. 43, § 802)] (§ 2-201 OF THE HEALTH OCCUPATIONS
ARTICLE);

(7)  STATE Board of Examiners for Speech
Pathologists [(Art. 43, § 803)] (§ 19-201 OF THE HEALTH
OCCUPATIONS ARTICLE);

(8)  State Board of Social Work Examiners [(Art.
43, § 862)] (§ 18-201 OF THE HEALTH OCCUPATIONS ARTICLE);

(16)  STATE BOARD OF ELECTROLOGISTS (§ 5-201 OF
THE HEALTH OCCUPATIONS ARTICLE);

(17)  STATE BOARD OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
PRACTICE (§ 9-201 OF THE HEALTH OCCUPATIONS ARTICLE).

Article 43 - Health

14.

(b) (1) Methods, Books and Forms. The State Board of
Health and Mental Hygiene shall collect certificates of
birth, death and fetal death, shall preserve and protect
them from loss by fire and other damage, and shall make
indices to such certificates. It shall decide appropriate
methods and design the necessary forms for accurate
registration of vital records, and shall supply local health
officers, physicians, midwives, funeral directors,
MORTICIANS, ministers, clerks of court, and other persons
charged with any duty under this subtitle, with the required
forms. Upon receipt of a completed birth, death, or fetal
death certificate, the State Board of Health and Mental
Hygiene shall forward a copy of the original certificate to
the county health officer concerned. The State Board of
Health and Mental Hygiene shall prepare annually or more
often reports of vital statistics including population
estimates, and shall have such reports printed and
distributed to officials, departments, libraries, and
persons whom it may deem entitled thereto.

20.

(a) (2) All other information that is required on the
certificate of death shall be executed by the MORTICIAN,
funeral director, or that person who is in charge of the
remains of the body. However, if an unclaimed body or
donated body is sent to the Anatomy Board, the information
required in this paragraph shall be filled out by a
representative of the hospital, nursing home administrator,
medical examiner, MORTICIAN, funeral director, or other
person last in charge of the body before it is sent to the
Anatomy Board.