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Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 20-18-101. Title - This chapter may be cited as the “Vital Statistics Act”.
§ 20-18-102. Definitions - As used in this chapter: (1) “Board” means the State...
§ 20-18-103. Applicability - The provisions of this chapter also apply to all certificates...
§ 20-18-105. Penalties - (a) The following persons shall be punished by a fine...
Subchapter 2 - Administration
§ 20-18-201. Division of Vital Records - (a) There is established in the Department of Health a...
§ 20-18-202. Regulatory powers of the State Board of Health - The State Board of Health may adopt, amend, and repeal...
§ 20-18-203. State Registrar of Vital Records - (a) The Secretary of the Department of Health shall appoint...
Subchapter 3 - Records Generally
§ 20-18-301. Content of certificates and reports - (a) In order to promote and maintain nationwide uniformity in...
§ 20-18-302. Persons required to keep records - (a) (1) Every person in charge of an institution as...
§ 20-18-303. Duty to furnish information - (a) Any person having knowledge of the facts shall furnish...
§ 20-18-304. Disclosure of information prohibited — Exceptions - (a) To protect the integrity of vital records and vital...
§ 20-18-305. Issuance of certified copies and data from system of vital statistics - In accordance with § 20-18-304 and the rules adopted pursuant...
§ 20-18-306. Fees for certified copies - (a) All fees for certified copies of vital records or...
§ 20-18-307. Amendment of vital records and reports - (a) A certificate, vital report, or vital record registered under...
§ 20-18-308. Reproductions of records and files - (a) To preserve vital records, the State Registrar of Vital...
Subchapter 4 - Births and Adoptions
§ 20-18-401. Birth registration generally - (a) A certificate of birth for each live birth which...
§ 20-18-402. Delayed registration of birth - (a) When the certificate of birth of a person born...
§ 20-18-403. Judicial procedure to register birth - (a) If the State Registrar of Vital Records refuses to...
§ 20-18-404. Infants of unknown parentage - (a) Whoever assumes the custody of a live-born infant of...
§ 20-18-406. New certificates - (a) The State Registrar of Vital Records shall establish a...
§ 20-18-407. Social Security account information of parents - (a) Social Security account information of parents of a child...
§ 20-18-408. Notice to parents regarding affidavits of paternity - Upon the birth of a child to a woman who...
§ 20-18-409. Disclosure of affidavits - (a) The hospital, birthing center, certified nurse practitioner, or licensed...
§ 20-18-410. Certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Certificate of birth...
Subchapter 5 - Marriages, Annulments, and Divorces
§ 20-18-501. Marriage registration - (a) A record of each marriage performed in this state...
§ 20-18-502. Divorce or annulment registration - (a) (1) For each divorce or annulment granted by any...
Subchapter 6 - Deaths
§ 20-18-601. Registration generally - (a) (1) A death certificate for each death that occurs...
§ 20-18-602. Delayed registration - (a) When a death occurring in this state has not...
§ 20-18-603. Registration of termination of pregnancy - (a) (1) (A) (i) A fetal death, when the fetus...
§ 20-18-604. Final disposition of dead body or fetus - (a) The funeral director or the person acting as the...
Subchapter 7 - Putative Father Registry
§ 20-18-701. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Child” means a person...
§ 20-18-702. Creation - (a) (1) There is established in the Department of Health...
§ 20-18-703. Revocation of information - (a) Information supplied to the Putative Father Registry may be...
§ 20-18-704. Furnishing of information - (a) The Department of Health shall make available to attorneys...
§ 20-18-705. Penalty - Any person who knowingly registers as a putative father pursuant...