§338-14.3 Verification in lieu of a certified copy. (a) Subject to the requirements of section 338-18, the department of health, upon request, shall furnish to any applicant, in lieu of the issuance of a certified copy, a verification of the existence of a certificate and any other information that the applicant provides to be verified relating to the vital event that pertains to the certificate.
(b) A verification shall be considered for all purposes certification that the vital event did occur and that the facts of the event are as stated by the applicant.
(c) Verification may be made in written, electronic, or other form approved by the director of health.
(d) The fee for a verification in lieu of a certified copy shall be a maximum of one half of the fee established in section 338-14.5 for the first certified copy of a certificate issued.
(e) Fees received for verifications in lieu of certified copies shall be remitted, and one half of the fee shall be deposited to the credit of the vital statistics improvement special fund in section 338-14.6 and the remainder of the fee shall be deposited to the credit of the state general fund. [L 2001, c 246, §1; am L 2010, c 55, §1]
Structure Hawaii Revised Statutes
338-2 Authority and duties of the department of health.
338-4 Deaths reported to county clerks.
338-5 Compulsory registration of births.
338-6 Local agent to prepare birth certificate.
338-7 Registration of foundlings; foundling report.
338-8 Compulsory registration of deaths and fetal deaths.
338-9 Filing and preparation of death and fetal death certificates.
338-10 Late determination of the cause of death.
338-12 Evidentiary character of certificates.
338-14.3 Verification in lieu of a certified copy.
338-14.5 Copies of certificate; fees.
338-14.6 Vital statistics improvement special fund.
338-15 Late or altered certificates.
338-16 Procedure concerning late and altered birth certificates.
338-17 Late or altered certificate as evidence.
338-17.5 Judicial procedure to establish facts of birth.
338-17.7 Establishment of new certificates of birth, when.
338-17.8 Certificates for children born out of State.
338-19 Photostatic or typewritten copies of records.
338-20.5 Adoption; foreign born persons.
338-21 Children born to parents not married to each other.
338-22 Other persons required to make records.
338-23 Permit for removal, burial, or other disposition of body.
338-24 Foreign permit for removal, burial, or other disposition of body.
338-25 Prerequisite for permit.
338-25.5 Disinterment of human bodies.
338-28 Transmittal of certificates to department.
338-29.5 Late registration of death, fetal death, marriage, and divorce.
338-43 OLD REPEALED. §338-43 Perjury.