Certificate of Cause of Death

Section 1242. Certificate of Cause of Death.--The coroner shall issue a certificate of cause of death in all cases referred to him by the local registrar of vital statistics, pursuant to the provisions of the act, approved the twenty-first day of May, one thousand nine hundred forty-three (Pamphlet Laws 414), known as the Uniform Vital Statistics Act, and in all other cases of which he has jurisdiction, if no person duly authorized by the said act certifies the cause of death.