Section 4141-A. Death certificate; duties of hospital administrator

When a
  death occurs in a hospital, except in those cases where certificates are
  issued  by  coroners  or medical examiners, the person in charge of such
  hospital or his designated representative  shall  promptly  present  the
  certificate  to the physician in attendance or a physician acting in his
  behalf who shall promptly certify to the facts  of  death,  provide  the
  medical  information  required  by  the  certificate,  sign  the medical
  certificate of death and  thereupon  return  such  certificate  to  such
  person,  so that the seventy-two hour registration time limit prescribed
  in section four thousand one hundred forty of this chapter can be met.