Section 4142. Death certificate; duties of funeral director

In each case
  the funeral director, undertaker or person having charge of the body  of
  a deceased person, shall:
    (a)  obtain  the personal and statistical particulars required for the
  certificate of death from a competent person acquainted with  the  facts
  and  qualified to supply them and enter them on the certificate together
  with the name and address of his informant;
    (b) present the certificate promptly to the attending  physician,  who
  shall  forthwith  certify  to  the  facts  of death, provide the medical
  information required by the certificate and sign the medical certificate
  of death, or to the coroner or medical examiner in those cases where  so
  required  by  this article or, when a death occurs in a hospital, except
  in those cases where certificates are  issued  by  coroners  or  medical
  examiners,  to  the  person in charge of such hospital or his designated
  representative who shall obtain the  medical  certificate  of  death  as
  prescribed  in  section  four  thousand  one hundred forty-one-a of this
  chapter;
    (c) state the facts required on the certificate of death  relative  to
  the  date  and place of burial, cremation or removal, over his signature
  and with his address; and,
    (d) prior to the disposition of the remains, file the  certificate  of
  death  with the registrar of the district in which the death occurred as
  provided in section four thousand one hundred forty of this article.