2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Chapter 432 - Vital Statistics
Section 432.993 - Unlawful use of vital record or report; criminal penalty.


(a) Makes a false statement to the State Registrar of the Center for Health Statistics in a report or application described in this chapter;
(b) Without lawful authority and with intent to deceive, makes, counterfeits, alters, amends or mutilates a record, report, certified copy, verification or application, or documentation submitted in support of a record, report, certified copy, verification or application;
(c) Obtains, possesses, uses, sells or furnishes to another, or attempts to obtain, possess, use, sell or furnish to another, for any purpose of deception, a record, report, certified copy, verification or application, or documentation submitted in support of a record, report, certified copy, verification or application;
(d) Without lawful authority, possesses a record, report, certified copy, verification or application, or documentation submitted in support of a record, report, certified copy, verification or application, that has been stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained; or
(e) As an employee of the Center for Health Statistics or of an office designated under ORS 432.035, furnishes or processes a certified copy of a record of live birth, knowing that the certified copy is to be used for the purposes of deception.
(2) Unlawful use of a vital record or report is a Class C felony. [1997 c.783 §42; 2013 c.366 §45]

Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

Volume : 12 - Public Health

Chapter 432 - Vital Statistics

Section 432.005 - Definitions.

Section 432.010 - Center for Health Statistics; standards.

Section 432.030 - Duties of state registrar.

Section 432.033 - Duties of state registrar related to confidentiality and security.

Section 432.035 - County registrars.

Section 432.075 - Duty to report information to state registrar; immunity.

Section 432.083 - Requirements for institutions, health care practitioners and persons who transport dead bodies.

Section 432.088 - Mandatory submission and registration of reports of live birth; persons required to report; rules.

Section 432.098 - Voluntary acknowledgment of paternity form; rules; filing; when form is sworn document; copy to child support agency.

Section 432.108 - Report of live birth for child of unknown parentage.

Section 432.113 - Delayed reports of live birth; rules.

Section 432.118 - Procedure for contesting refusal to register report of live birth or delayed report of live birth; rules.

Section 432.133 - Mandatory submission and registration of reports of death; persons required to report.

Section 432.138 - Court orders for records of death.

Section 432.141 - Annual reporting of opiate and opioid overdoses.

Section 432.143 - Mandatory submission and registration of reports of fetal death; persons required to report; rules.

Section 432.148 - Commemorative Certificate of Stillbirth; rules.

Section 432.158 - Disposition of remains; rules.

Section 432.173 - Mandatory submission and registration of reports of marriage and reports of domestic partnership; persons required to report.

Section 432.178 - Delayed report of marriage.

Section 432.183 - Mandatory submission and registration of reports of dissolution of marriage and reports of dissolution of domestic partnership; clerk of court to submit; rules.

Section 432.223 - Reports of adoption; reports of amendments or annulments of judgment of adoption; persons required to report; rules.

Section 432.228 - Issuance of certified copy of record of live birth to adopted persons; Contact Preference Form.

Section 432.235 - Requirements for amending or correcting vital record.

Section 432.245 - Replacing records of live birth; restoring records of live birth.

Section 432.295 - Preservation program; reproductions of vital records; availability; rules.

Section 432.350 - Vital records exempt from public disclosure; exceptions; rules.

Section 432.360 - Records of dissolution of marriage and dissolution of domestic partnership subject to full disclosure; exemption.

Section 432.380 - Issuance of certified copies of records; applicant qualifications.

Section 432.385 - Registering, amending or correcting record through fraud; fraudulent use of record.

Section 432.435 - Fees.

Section 432.445 - Issuance of additional record of live birth; fee; form; distribution of funds received.

Section 432.450 - Grant program for issuance of certified copy of record of live birth to individual who is homeless; rules.

Section 432.455 - Birth Certificates for Homeless Persons Fund.

Section 432.500 - Definitions.

Section 432.510 - Cancer and tumor registry system; purpose; rulemaking; duties of Oregon Health Authority.

Section 432.520 - Reporting requirement; review of records; special studies.

Section 432.530 - Confidentiality of information.

Section 432.540 - Use of confidential data; rules.

Section 432.550 - Action for damages; license; disciplinary action prohibited for good faith participation in reporting of data.

Section 432.570 - No requirement or prohibition regarding operation of separate cancer and tumor registry.

Section 432.600 - Establishment of committee; members; term; meetings; duties; confidentiality; reports.

Section 432.900 - Civil penalty.

Section 432.993 - Unlawful use of vital record or report; criminal penalty.

Section 432.994 - Unlawful use of vital record or report; civil penalty.

Section 432.995 - Obstructing the keeping of vital records or reports; criminal penalty.