Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-01-28 | Page 7 | Provides Penalties for Making False Death Certificates

ton PROVIDES PENALTIES FOR fR MAKING FALSE DEATH DEAT CERTIFICATES Senator L L. B B. B Wright in the senate yesterday introduced a bill bi providing penalties for tor ph physicians midwives pro arid arc others who fail to make out tal proper certificates of ot death deah and nd also als for or those who make malI out ont false certificates certificates- Interment Interment Inter Inter- ment meat of any deceased person child chilI or Infant without the filing of ot the proper c certificate of oC death Is also punishable under the terms of oC the bill bi which amends present laws haws on the subject Under tho the Wight Wight bill bi doctors doctor mt midwives mid mid- wives and oth others rs In attendance upon a 1 deceased person parson must deliver to those In charge of ot the burial a a bona fide certificate er- er of death If I they fall fail fal they archeld are arc held guilty gunt of or a misdemeanor Likewise Likewise Likewise Like Like- wise are those who make out false Those who mae bur bury the dead without having received the proper certificate certificate from attending physician or other person are also punishable for fur a misdemeanor Railroad companies are mo liable lable to punishment for the same offense of of- fease f- f tense ease If It thc they carr carry bodies for or which the proper certificates of death have hae ho c not been supplied Conviction under the terms of at the bill bi is punishable by fines from 10 to The bill bi was referred to the committee commit te tee on public health and l labor bor