(a) Any person who does any of the following shall be guilty of a Class C felony:
(1) Willfully and knowingly makes any false statement in a certificate, record, or report required by this chapter or rules of the board, or in an application for an amendment to a certificate, record, or report, or in an application for a certified copy of a vital record, or who willfully and knowingly supplies false information intending that the information be used in the preparation of any report, record, or certificate, or amendment of the report, record, or certificate.
(2) With intent to deceive and without lawful authority, makes, counterfeits, alters, amends, or mutilates any certificate, record, or report required by this chapter or rules of the board, or a certified copy of the certificate, record, or report.
(3) Willfully and knowingly obtains, possesses, uses, sells, furnishes, or attempts to obtain, possess, use, sell, or furnish to another, for any purpose of deception, any certificate, record, report, or certified copy thereof, required by this chapter or rules of the board that is any of the following:
a. Made, counterfeited, altered, amended, or mutilated.
b. False in whole or in part.
c. Relates to the birth of another person, whether living or deceased.
(4) As an employee of the Office of Vital Statistics or any district designated under Section 22-9A-4, willfully and knowingly furnishes or processes a certificate of birth, or certified copy of a certificate of birth, with the knowledge or intention that it be used for the purposes of deception.
(5) Without lawful authority possesses any certificate, record, or report, required by this chapter or rules of the board, or copy or certified copy or the certificate, record, or report knowing same to have been stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained.
(b) Any person who does any of the following shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $100.00 nor more than $500.00 per violation:
(1) Willfully and knowingly fails or refuses to provide information required by this chapter or rules of the board adopted pursuant to this chapter.
(2) Willfully and knowingly finally disposes of a dead body without authorization as specified in Section 22-9A-16.
(3) Willfully and knowingly neglects or violates any of the provisions of this chapter or rules of the board, or refuses to perform any of the duties imposed upon him or her by this chapter or rules of the board.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.
Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.
Chapter 9A - Vital Statistics.
Section 22-9A-1 - Definitions.
Section 22-9A-2 - Office of Vital Statistics and Statewide System of Vital Statistics.
Section 22-9A-3 - Appointment of State Registrar of Vital Statistics; Duties of State Registrar.
Section 22-9A-4 - Registration Districts.
Section 22-9A-5 - Local Registrars and Deputy Registrars of Vital Statistics.
Section 22-9A-6 - Content of Certificates and Reports.
Section 22-9A-7 - Registration of Births.
Section 22-9A-8 - Registration of Infants of Unknown Parentage.
Section 22-9A-9 - Delayed Registration of Birth.
Section 22-9A-10 - Judicial Procedure to Establish Facts of Birth.
Section 22-9A-11 - Court Reports of Adoption.
Section 22-9A-11.1 - Issuance of Certificate of Foreign Birth Without Judicial Proceedings.
Section 22-9A-13 - Reports of Fetal Death; Reports of Induced Termination of Pregnancy.
Section 22-9A-13.1 - Certificate of Birth Resulting in Stillbirth.
Section 22-9A-14 - Death Registration.
Section 22-9A-15 - Delayed Registration of Death.
Section 22-9A-16 - Authorization for Final Disposition.
Section 22-9A-17 - Marriage Registration.
Section 22-9A-18 - Divorce Registration.
Section 22-9A-19 - Amendment of Vital Records.
Section 22-9A-20 - Reproduction of Vital Records.
Section 22-9A-21 - Disclosure of Information From Vital Records.
Section 22-9A-22 - Copies or Data From the System of Vital Statistics.
Section 22-9A-24 - Persons Required to Keep Records and to Furnish Information.
Section 22-9A-25 - Enforcement.
Section 22-9A-26 - Penalty for Violation of Chapter or Rules of the State Board of Health.