Section 9 of chapter 46 of the General Laws, as amended by section 1 of chapter 120 of the Acts of 2004, is hereby further amended by adding the following paragraph:-
The employers of a registered professional nurse, nurse practitioner or any other person authorized under this section to declare a person dead shall within 16 hours of death deliver to the funeral director responsible for the funeral arrangements of the deceased, a properly completed certificate of death which shall contain the signature of the attending or certifying physician. Whoever fails to comply with the provisions of this paragraph shall be punished by a fine of $1,000 or may be subject to suspension of license to practice, issued under the provisions of chapter 112, for a record of not more than 30 day, or both.
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