Within five days after delivery, the funeral director, or person acting as such, or a licensed hospital, if the dead fetus was delivered and final disposition occurred in a hospital, shall complete and file a Certificate of Fetal Death for each spontaneous fetal death of 20 completed weeks of gestation or more which occurs in this State.
Within five days of each spontaneous fetal death of less than 20 completed weeks gestation, and each induced termination of pregnancy which occurs in this State, regardless of the length of gestation, the event shall be reported to the State Registrar on the prescribed Report of Spontaneous or Induced Abortion form by the person in charge of the institution in which the event occurred. If the induced termination of pregnancy was performed outside an institution, the attending physician or his designee shall prepare and submit the prescribed Report of Spontaneous or Induced Abortion form.
Reports of spontaneous fetal deaths of less than 20 completed weeks gestation and all reports of induced termination of pregnancy shall be used only for compilation of statistical reports and are not to be incorporated into the official records of the office of the State Registrar of Vital Statistics. The State Registrar is authorized to dispose of such reports when all statistical processing of the records has been accomplished.
All reports required under this Section 10 are considered to be vital statistics records subject to the confidentiality provisions of section 25-2-117, C.R.S. and Section 9.2 of these rules.
5 CCR 1006-1-10