1. A fetal death certificate for each fetal death which occurs in this state after a gestation period of twenty completed weeks or greater, or for a fetus with a weight of three hundred fiftygrams or more shall be filed as directed by the state registrar within three days after delivery and prior to final disposition of the fetus. The certificate shall be registered ifithas been completed and filed in accordance with this chapter. 2. The county in which a dead fetus isfound isthe county of death. The certificate shall be filedwithin three days after the fetus isfound. Ifa fetal death occurs in a moving conveyance, the county in which the fetus isfirst removed from the conveyance is the county of death.
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