A. A hospital, abortion clinic, physician or midwife shall submit a completed fetal death certificate to the state registrar for registration within seven days after the fetal death for each fetal death occurring in this state after a gestational period of twenty completed weeks or if the unborn child weighs more than three hundred fifty grams.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 36-329

  • Certificate: means a record that documents a birth or death. See Arizona Laws 36-301
  • Fetal death: means the cessation of life before the complete expulsion or extraction of an unborn child from the child's mother that is evidenced by the absence of breathing, heartbeat, umbilical cord pulsation or definite voluntary muscle movement after expulsion or extraction. See Arizona Laws 36-301
  • Submit: means to present, physically or electronically, a certificate, evidentiary document or form provided for in this chapter to a local registrar, a deputy local registrar or the state registrar. See Arizona Laws 36-301

B. The requirements for registering a fetal death certificate are the same as the requirements for registering a death certificate prescribed in section 36-325.

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