69.18(3)(f)
(f) Every person in charge of a place in which interment or other disposition of corpses occurs shall maintain a written record of every corpse interred there. The record shall include the name of the decedent, the place of death, the date of burial and the name and address of the funeral director or other person in charge of the funeral.
69.18(3)(g)
(g) If a deceased person had a disease which the department determines is communicable and dangerous to the public health, the corpse of the person may not be moved nor final disposition effected except under conditions prescribed by the department.
69.18(4)
(4) Authorization for disinterment and reinterment. 69.18(4)(a)(a) Subject to
s. 157.111, the coroner or medical examiner of the county in which a decedent's corpse is interred shall issue an authorization for disinterment and reinterment upon receipt of an order of a court of competent jurisdiction or upon receipt of a written application for disinterment and reinterment signed by the person in charge of the disinterment and by any of the following persons, in order of priority stated, when persons in prior classes are not available at the time of application, and in the absence of actual notice of contrary indications by the decedent or actual notice of opposition by a member of the same or a prior class:
69.18(4)(a)5.
5. A guardian of the person of the decedent at the time of the decedent's death.
69.18(4)(a)6.
6. Any other person authorized or under obligation to dispose of the decedent's corpse.
69.18(4)(bm)
(bm) A cemetery authority may disinter and reinter buried human remains as provided under
s. 157.112 without first obtaining an authorization under
par. (a).
69.18 Cross-reference
Cross-reference: See also chs.
DHS 135 and
136, Wis. adm. code.
69.18 Annotation
Sub. (2) (f) does not require a death certificate to state the basis of a patient's treatment or the type of treatment. Neuman v. Circuit Court for Marathon County,
231 Wis. 2d 440,
605 N.W.2d 280 (Ct. App. 1999),
99-0714.
69.186
69.186
Induced abortion reporting. 69.186(1)
(1) On or before January 15 annually, each hospital, clinic or other facility in which an induced abortion is performed shall file with the department a report for each induced abortion performed in the hospital, clinic or other facility in the previous calendar year. Each report shall contain all of the following information with respect to each patient obtaining an induced abortion in the hospital, clinic or other facility:
69.186(1)(a)
(a) The state and, if this state, the county, of residence.
69.186(1)(f)
(f) Month and year in which the induced abortion was performed.
69.186(1)(h)
(h) The number of weeks since the patient's last menstrual period.
69.186(1)(hm)
(hm) Whether the abortion was a chemically induced abortion, a surgical abortion or a surgical abortion following a failed or incomplete chemical abortion.
69.186(1)(i)
(i) Complications, if any, resulting from performance of the induced abortion.
69.186(2)
(2) The department shall collect the information under
sub. (1) in a manner which the department shall specify and which ensures the anonymity of a patient who receives an induced abortion, a health care provider who provides an induced abortion and a hospital, clinic or other facility in which an induced abortion is performed. The department shall publish annual demographic summaries of the information obtained under this section, except that the department may not disclose any information obtained under this section that reveals the identity of any patient, health care provider or hospital, clinic or other facility and shall ensure anonymity in all of the following ways: