Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 93 - Registrars of Vital Statistics
Section 7-40. - Seal.

The registrar of vital statistics in each town shall have an official seal that shall be provided by the town and shall be used to authenticate certificates and copies of record. No person, other than the registrar of vital statistics or the registrar's authorized agent, may possess any such official seal or any facsimile thereof.

(1949 Rev., S. 563; P.A. 01-163, S. 3.)
History: P.A. 01-163 made technical changes and added provision re possession of official seal or facsimile.
See Sec. 51-58 re court seals.

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Connecticut General Statutes

Title 7 - Municipalities

Chapter 93 - Registrars of Vital Statistics

Section 7-36. - Definitions.

Section 7-37. - Town clerk, ex-officio registrar. Notice to Secretary of the State and Commissioner of Public Health of appointment of registrar, vacancy in appointed office of registrar.

Section 7-38. - Assistant registrars. Notice to Secretary of the State and Commissioner of Public Health of appointment to or vacancy in office of assistant registrar.

Section 7-39. - Oath of registrars.

Section 7-39a. (Formerly Sec. 45-23). - Record of name of registrar of vital statistics.

Section 7-40. - Seal.

Section 7-41. - Regulations re record keeping. Submission of certified copies to department.

Section 7-41a. - Vital statistics records available for genealogical research.

Section 7-42. - Duties.

Section 7-43. - Municipal ordinances.

Section 7-44. - When authenticated copies of certificates to be transmitted to other towns. Use of electronic vital records system.

Section 7-45. - Preparation of certificates.

Section 7-46. - Completion of records.

Section 7-47. - Indexes.

Section 7-47a. - Definitions.

Section 7-47b. - Record keeping of personal data by institutions. Release or disposal of dead body or dead fetus.

Section 7-48. - Birth certificates: Filing requirements.

Section 7-48a. - Filing of original certificate of birth. Surrogacy agreement: Replacement certificate of birth.

Section 7-49. - Failure to file birth certificate.

Section 7-50. - Restrictions on content of birth certificates. Exceptions. Filing of acknowledgments or adjudications of parentage. Removal or changing of parentage information. Access to copies restricted.

Section 7-51. - Access to and examination and issuance of certified copies of birth and fetal death records or certificates restricted. Access to and disclosure of confidential information restricted. Fee waiver for certified copies of birth certific...

Section 7-51a. - Copies of vital records. Access to vital records by members of genealogical societies. Marriage and civil union licenses. Death certificates. Issuance of certified copies of electronically filed certificates.

Section 7-52. - Certification of birth registration.

Section 7-53. - Birth certificates of adopted persons born in this state.

Section 7-53a. - Reports re issuance of original birth certificates to adopted persons and certain other persons and filing of contact preference and health history forms.

Section 7-54. - Certification of birth registration or certificate of foreign birth for person born outside of the country and adopted by a state resident. Application and decree re change of biological age and date of birth.

Section 7-55. - Certification of birth to have force and effect of original.

Section 7-56. - Issuance of certified copies of birth certificates.

Section 7-57. - Delayed registration of births.

Section 7-58. - Record of birth of child born outside United States.

Section 7-59. - Report of foundling.

Section 7-60. - Fetal death certificates.

Section 7-61. - Birth and fetal death certificates to state whether blood test has been made.

Section 7-62. - Death certificates.

Section 7-62a. - Illegal issuance of certificates.

Section 7-62b. - Death certificates; filing and registration; responsibilities of funeral directors and licensed embalmers; medical certification; burial of person who died from communicable disease; “presumptive” death certificates; regulations.

Section 7-62c. - Filing and registration of death certificate when death not recorded in accordance with Sec. 7-62b; “delayed” death certificates.

Section 7-63. - Notice of deaths at the Connecticut Juvenile Training School.

Section 7-64. - Disposal of bodies.

Section 7-65. - Removal, transit and burial permit. Subregistrars.

Section 7-65a. - Multiple interment in common hospital-supplied container.

Section 7-66. - Duties of sextons. Sextons' reports. Penalty.

Section 7-67. - Applications for and issuance of disinterment permits.

Section 7-68. - Issuance of disinterment or removal permit.

Section 7-68a. - Application to Probate Court for disinterment of remains of child buried in a multiple interment within common hospital-supplied container. Hearing. Order of disinterment. Sexton and Chief Medical Examiner to determine whether remain...

Section 7-69. - Removal of body of deceased person.

Section 7-70. - Temporary removal of body to another town or state. Temporary removal permit.

Section 7-71. - Report of name of sexton.

Section 7-72. - Sextons' reports. Fines.

Section 7-73. - Fees for marriage license, burial or removal, transit and burial permit. Marriage license surcharge.

Section 7-74. - Fees for certification of birth registration, certified copy of vital statistics certificate and uncertified copy of original certificate of birth. Waiver of fee for certificate of death for a veteran.

Section 7-75. - Fees for records relating to inmates of institutions.

Section 7-76. - Fees for records relating to residents of other towns.

Section 7-77 and 7-78. - Identification of veterans' graves. General penalty.