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Subchapter I. General Provisions
§ 3101. Definitions. - For purposes of this chapter: (1) “Dead body” means a...
§ 3102. Supervision and enforcement of registrations. - (a) The Department has charge of the registration of births,...
§ 3103. Regulations of Department; adoption and enforcement. - The Department may adopt, promulgate, amend and repeal such regulations...
§ 3104. Central Office of Vital Statistics. - (a) There is hereby established within the Division of Public...
§ 3105. State Registrar of Vital Statistics; duties. - (a) The Director of the Division of Public Health of...
§ 3106. Employment of personnel and acquisition of equipment. - The Division of Public Health shall provide the Office of...
§ 3107. Reproduction of vital records; official seal for certification. - (a) To preserve vital records, the State Registrar is authorized...
§ 3108. Form of certificates and reports. - (a) In order to promote and maintain nationwide uniformity in...
§ 3109. Completion of certificates and reports. - (a) Those individuals and/or institutions responsible for completion of certificates...
§ 3110. Disclosure of records. - (a) To protect the integrity of vital records, to ensure...
§ 3111. Penalties. - (a) A fine of not more than $10,000, or imprisonment...
§ 3112. Immunity. - No employee of the Office of Vital Statistics or other...
Subchapter II. Registration Requirements and Procedures
§ 3121. Registration of births. - (a) A certificate of birth for each live birth which...
§ 3121A. Certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth. - (a) The State Registrar of Vital Statistics shall issue a...
§ 3122. Infants of unknown parentage; foundling registration. - (a) When the State assumes the custody of a live...
§ 3123. Registration of death. - (a) A certificate of death for each death which occurs...
§ 3124. Registration of spontaneous fetal death. - Each spontaneous fetal death of 350 grams or more, or...
§ 3125. Registration of marriage. - (a) A record of each marriage performed in this State...
§ 3126. Registration of adoptions; duty of clerk of court; old and new birth certificates. - (a) Upon the issuance of a final decree of adoption...
§ 3127. Acknowledgment or establishment of paternity. - In cases of acknowledgment or establishment of paternity, the State...
§ 3128. Divorce or annulment registration for statistical purposes. - (a) A record of each divorce or annulment granted by...
§ 3129. Registration of birth, death, marriage, divorce or fetal death where registration neglected or omitted. - Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, the State Registrar,...
§ 3130. Certificates as evidence. - Certificates filed within 6 months after the time prescribed therefor...
§ 3131. Delayed or amended certificates; procedures; evidence. - (a) A person born in this State may file or...
§ 3132. Fee for issuance of certificates and searches. - (a) The State Registrar shall receive a fee not to...
§ 3133. Reports of induced termination of pregnancy. - Each induced termination of pregnancy which occurs in this State,...
Subchapter III. Burial, Removal or Cremation of Dead Bodies
§ 3151. Permit for removal, burial or other disposition; foreign permits; prerequisites for permit. - When a death or a fetal death occurs or a...
§ 3152. Burial/transit permits for shipment of corpses — Required. - No common carrier shall receive for shipment from any point...
§ 3153. Disinterment — Rules and regulations. - No body or stillborn fetus shall be disinterred within the...
§ 3154. Authorization for disinterment and reinterment. - (a) Authorization. — A permit for disinterment and reinterment of...
§ 3155. Permits for disinterment of bodies buried in Kent or Sussex County before January 1, 1893. - The State Registrar of Vital Statistics through the central office...
§ 3156. Disinterment from condemned land. - The Department shall modify and relax its regulations and restrictions...
§ 3157. Cremation; prohibited except in licensed crematory. - No person shall destroy or dispose of by burning in...
§ 3158. Crematory; approval for construction; requirements; inspection. - (a) A person, firm, organization or association desiring to acquire,...
§ 3159. Permit for cremation; issuance, retention and inspection. - (a) A body may be cremated only after the preparation...
§ 3160. Report of cremation. - Within 24 hours after the cremation is completed a report...
§ 3161. Delivery, transportation and disposal of ashes. - The ashes resulting from the cremation of a body may...
§ 3162. Witnesses at cremation. - A representative of the family or some individual accredited to...
§ 3163. Permit where death occurs in this State and cremation takes place elsewhere. - The provisions of § 3159 of this title, respecting the...
§ 3164. Cremation in this State when death occurred elsewhere. - The cremation in this State of the bodies of persons...