North Dakota Century Code Title 23. Health and Safety § 23-02.1-22. Extension of time

1. The department of health and human services may, by regulation and upon such conditions as it may prescribe to assure compliance with the purposes of this chapter, provide for the extension of the periods of time prescribed in sections 23-02.1-19, 23-02.1-20, and 23-02.1-21 for the filing of death records, fetal death records, medical certification of death, and for the obtaining of final disposition-transit permits in cases in which compliance with the applicable prescribed period would result in undue hardship.

2. Regulations of the department of health and human services may provide for the issuance of a final disposition-transit permit under section 23-02.1-21 before the filing of a record of death or fetal death upon conditions designed to assure compliance with the purposes of this chapter in cases in which compliance with the requirement that the records be filed before the issuance of the permit would result in undue hardship.