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

The commissioner shall appoint the state registrar of vital records, hereinafter referred to as “state registrar,” subject to the rules and regulations of the State Personnel Board, classified service.
History. Code 1933, § 88-1704, enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 723, § 1; Code 1981, § 31-10-4 , enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 723, § 2; Ga. L. 2009, p. 745, § 2/SB 97; Ga. L. 2012, p. 446, § 2-41/HB 642.
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2012, p. 446, § 3-1/HB 642, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: “Personnel, equipment, and facilities that were assigned to the State Personnel Administration as of June 30, 2012, shall be transferred to the Department of Administrative Services on the effective date of this Act.” This Act became effective July 1, 2012.
Ga. L. 2012, p. 446, § 3-2/HB 642, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: “Appropriations for functions which are transferred by this Act may be transferred as provided in Code Section 45-12-90.

Structure Georgia Code

Georgia Code

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