Chapter 10 - Vital Records

Chapter 10 - Vital Records

§ 31-10-1. Definitions
§ 31-10-2. Maintenance and operation of vital records registration system
§ 31-10-3. Rules and regulations
§ 31-10-4. Appointment of state registrar of vital records
§ 31-10-5. Duties and powers of state registrar; delegation of functions and duties
§ 31-10-6. Local registrars, local custodians, special abstracting agents, and deputies; appointment; duties
§ 31-10-7. Form of certificates and reports; date received for registration required; filing or registration of information by photographic, electronic, or other means
§ 31-10-8. Certification to county treasurers of birth and death certificates and spontaneous fetal death reports filed; fees
§ 31-10-9. Registration of births
§ 31-10-9.1. Social security account information of parents
§ 31-10-10. Registration of live born infants of unknown parentage
§ 31-10-11. Registration of delayed certificate of birth
§ 31-10-12. Judicial procedure to establish facts of birth
§ 31-10-13. Certificates of adoption
§ 31-10-13.1. Certified copies of orders and registration of legitimations and paternity orders
§ 31-10-13.2. Provision of copies of legitimation and paternity orders to state registrar
§ 31-10-14. Issuance of new certificate of birth following adoption and legitimation or paternity determination
§ 31-10-15. Death certificate; filing; medical certification; forwarding death certificate to decedent's county of residence; purging voter registration list
§ 31-10-16. Criteria for pronouncing death; immunity from liability
§ 31-10-17. State registration of death certificates; certified copies; certificates of record
§ 31-10-18. Registration of spontaneous fetal deaths
§ 31-10-19. Reporting of induced termination of pregnancy
§ 31-10-20. Permits for disposition, disinterment, and reinterment
§ 31-10-21. Record of marriage licenses
§ 31-10-22. Record of divorces, dissolutions, and annulments
§ 31-10-23. Amendment of certificates or reports
§ 31-10-24. Preservation or disposition of vital records; certified reproductions; preserved originals and authorized reproductions as property of department
§ 31-10-25. Disclosure of information contained in vital records; transfer of records to State Archives
§ 31-10-26. Issuance of certified copies of vital records, voluntary acknowledgments of paternity, voluntary acknowledgments of legitimation; certificates; use for statistical purposes; transmittal of records out of state; use for commercial or speculative purposes
§ 31-10-27. Fees for copies or services
§ 31-10-28. Institutions to keep vital records
§ 31-10-29. Privileged nature of disclosures; notification of local registrar of institutional deaths and fetal deaths; notification of board of voting registrars of adult deaths
§ 31-10-30. Posting facts of death to birth certificates
§ 31-10-31. Penalties
§ 31-10-32. Extension of periods for filing of certificates or reports
§ 31-10-33. Procedure for stillbirth

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