(1) A local registrar must immediately notify the department, orally or in writing, whenever:

(a) the registrar has received a completed dead body removal authorization form for a decedent but does not receive a death or fetal death certificate, whichever is appropriate, for the same decedent within 10 days after the death occurred or was discovered.

(b) the registrar has received a death or fetal death certificate for a decedent but has not received a dead body removal authorization form for that same decedent.