The Department of Public Health shall have general supervision of the state system of registration of births, marriages, deaths and fetal deaths, and shall develop the necessary uniform methods and forms for obtaining and preserving such records in order to insure the faithful registration of such records in the several towns and in the department. The department shall recommend such forms, procedures and legislation as are necessary to secure complete and accurate registration of vital statistics throughout the state. The Commissioner of Public Health shall be the superintendent of registration of vital statistics.

(1949 Rev., S. 3812; 1959, P.A. 148, S. 8; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 01-163, S. 30.)

History: 1959 act deleted provision re insuring faithful registration in central bureau of vital statistics, substituting reference to department; P.A. 77-614 replaced commissioner and department of health with commissioner and department of health services, effective January 1, 1979; Sec. 19-14 transferred to Sec. 19a-40 in 1983; P.A. 93-381 replaced department and commissioner of health services with department and commissioner of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 01-163 added provisions re fetal deaths, development of uniform methods and forms and recommendation of procedures and made technical changes.

See Sec. 7-36 for applicable definitions.

Annotation to former section 19-14:

Admissibility of medical examiner's report to show cause of death. 102 C. 486.