. 12-4-18. Registration records--Incompetent, deceased or convicted felon-- Removal--Penalty. The clerk of courts shall, within fifteen days after the close of each month, prepare and deliver to the auditor an abstract from the records of the names of persons declared mentally incompetent in the preceding month. The notice shall be sent to the county auditor of the county in which the person declared incompetent resides. 25 Catchlines are not law. (§ 2-16-13.1) Each county coroner shall, within five days after the close of each week, prepare and deliver to the auditor a list of the names of persons declared deceased in the preceding week. The county auditor shall remove from the master registration list the file: (1) The names of persons identified as mentally incompetent in accordance with the information provided pursuant to this section and; (2) The names of those persons sentenced to imprisonment in the federal penitentiary system and may remove; and (3) The names published in an obituary of deceased persons in accordance with the information provided pursuant to this section. Voter registration records maintained in or transmitted to the statewide voter registration file shall be matched with the death records maintained as vital statistics records by the Department of Health and the records of felony convictions maintained by the Unified Judicial System. Any voter identified as deceased or who is serving a sentence for a felony conviction shall be removed from the voter registration records. The State Board of Elections may promulgate rules, pursuant to chapter 1-26, determining how voter registration records shall be matched. A person who fails to comply with the requirements of this section is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.