Georgia Code
Chapter 10 - Vital Records
§ 31-10-2. Maintenance and Operation of Vital Records Registration System

There is hereby established within the department the State Office of Vital Records which shall maintain and operate the state’s official vital records registration system. The system shall be in effect in all areas of the state, and the State Office of Vital Records shall provide for proper administration of the system and preservation of its records.
History. Code 1933, § 88-1702, enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 723, § 1; Code 1981, § 31-10-2 , enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 723, § 2; Ga. L. 2004, p. 477, § 2.

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Title 31 - Health

Chapter 10 - Vital Records

§ 31-10-1. Definitions

§ 31-10-2. Maintenance and Operation of Vital Records Registration System

§ 31-10-3. Rules and Regulations

§ 31-10-4. Appointment of State Registrar of Vital Records

§ 31-10-5. Duties and Powers of State Registrar; Delegation of Functions and Duties

§ 31-10-6. Local Registrars, Local Custodians, Special Abstracting Agents, and Deputies; Appointment; Duties

§ 31-10-7. Form of Certificates and Reports; Date Received for Registration Required; Filing or Registration of Information by Photographic, Electronic, or Other Means

§ 31-10-8. Certification to County Treasurers of Birth and Death Certificates and Spontaneous Fetal Death Reports Filed; Fees

§ 31-10-9. Registration of Births

§ 31-10-9.1. Social Security Account Information of Parents

§ 31-10-9.2. Abuse or Neglect Reports; Establishment of Policies and Procedures

§ 31-10-10. Registration of Live Born Infants of Unknown Parentage

§ 31-10-11. Registration of Delayed Certificate of Birth

§ 31-10-12. Judicial Procedure to Establish Facts of Birth

§ 31-10-13. Certificates of Adoption

§ 31-10-13.1. Certified Copies of Orders and Registration of Legitimations and Paternity Orders

§ 31-10-13.2. Provision of Copies of Legitimation and Paternity Orders to State Registrar

§ 31-10-14. Issuance of New Certificate of Birth Following Adoption and Legitimation or Paternity Determination

§ 31-10-15. Death Certificate; Filing; Medical Certification; Forwarding Death Certificate to Decedent’s County of Residence; Purging Voter Registration List

§ 31-10-16. Criteria for Pronouncing Death; Immunity From Liability

§ 31-10-17. State Registration of Death Certificates; Certified Copies; Certificates of Record

§ 31-10-18. Registration of Spontaneous Fetal Deaths

§ 31-10-19. Reporting of Induced Termination of Pregnancy

§ 31-10-20. Permits for Disposition, Disinterment, and Reinterment

§ 31-10-21. Record of Marriage Licenses

§ 31-10-22. Record of Divorces, Dissolutions, and Annulments

§ 31-10-23. Amendment of Certificates or Reports

§ 31-10-24. Preservation or Disposition of Vital Records; Certified Reproductions; Preserved Originals and Authorized Reproductions as Property of Department

§ 31-10-25. Disclosure of Information Contained in Vital Records; Transfer of Records to State Archives

§ 31-10-26. Issuance of Certified Copies of Vital Records, Voluntary Acknowledgments of Paternity, Voluntary Acknowledgments of Legitimation; Certificates; Use for Statistical Purposes; Transmittal of Records Out of State; Use for Commercial or Specu...

§ 31-10-27. Fees for Copies or Services

§ 31-10-28. Institutions to Keep Vital Records

§ 31-10-29. Privileged Nature of Disclosures; Notification of Local Registrar of Institutional Deaths and Fetal Deaths; Notification of Board of Voting Registrars of Adult Deaths

§ 31-10-30. Posting Facts of Death to Birth Certificates

§ 31-10-31. Penalties

§ 31-10-32. Extension of Periods for Filing of Certificates or Reports

§ 31-10-33. Procedure for Stillbirth