Colorado Chiropractic Association v. State

Colorado Chiropractic Association, a Colorado nonprofit corporation, and Louis O. Gearhart, a licensed doctor of chiropractic, instituted proceedings in the district court for a declaratory judgment to test the correctness of the *397construction of C.R.S. 1963, 66-8-7, by the Colorado State Department of Health (the Department of Health).

The statute in question (66-8-7) provides:

“In case of any death occurring without medical attendance it shall be the duty of the undertaker or other person having knowledge of such death to notify the coroner immediately. The coroner shall notify the district…