144.46 Fees.
1. The department by rule shall establish fees based on the average administrative cost which shall be collected by the state registrar or the county registrar for each of the following:
a. A certified copy or short form certification of a certificate or record.
b. A copy of a certificate or record or a vital statistics data file provided to a researcher in accordance with section 144.44.
c. A copy of a certificate or record or a vital statistics data file provided to a federal, state, local, or other public or private agency for statistical purposes in accordance with section 144.45.
d. Verification or certification of vital statistics data provided to a federal, state, or local governmental agency authorized by rule to receive such data.
2. Fees collected by the state registrar and by the county registrar on behalf of the state under this section shall be deposited in the general fund of the state and the vital records fund established in section 144.46A in accordance with an apportionment established by rule. Fees collected by the county registrar pursuant to section 331.605, subsection 1, paragraph “f”, shall be deposited in the county general fund.
3. The department may establish and maintain, and either the state registrar or the county registrar is authorized to collect, a fee for a search of the files or records when no copy is made, or when no record is found on file.
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §2417, 2418, 2427; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, §144.32, 144.33, 144.42; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, S81, §144.46; 81 Acts, ch 64, §11]
83 Acts, ch 123, §68, 209; 83 Acts, ch 186, §10050, 10201; 94 Acts, ch 1074, §1; 95 Acts, ch 124, §8, 26; 99 Acts, ch 114, §7; 2007 Acts, ch 159, §27; 2010 Acts, ch 1061, §164; 2015 Acts, ch 119, §2, 3
Referred to in §144.13A, 144.18, 144.24A, 144.31A, 144.46A, 232.2, 331.611, 600.13
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 144 - VITAL STATISTICS
Section 144.2 - Division of records and statistics.
Section 144.3 - Rules adopted.
Section 144.5 - Duties of registrar.
Section 144.9 - County recorder as registrar.
Section 144.11 - Public access to records.
Section 144.12 - Forms uniform.
Section 144.12A - Declaration of paternity registry.
Section 144.13 - Birth certificates.
Section 144.13A - Fees — use of funds — electronic birth certificate system.
Section 144.13B - Waiver of fees — military service.
Section 144.15 - Delayed registrations of birth.
Section 144.16 - Delayed registration of death or marriage.
Section 144.17 - Petition to establish certificate.
Section 144.18 - Court hearing.
Section 144.19 - Adoption certificate.
Section 144.21 - Amended record.
Section 144.22 - Clerk to report to state registrar.
Section 144.23 - State registrar to issue new certificate.
Section 144.24 - Substituting new for original birth certificates — inspection.
Section 144.25 - No previous certificate — procedure.
Section 144.25A - Certificate of birth — foreign and international adoptions.
Section 144.26 - Death certificate.
Section 144.28 - Medical certification.
Section 144.29 - Fetal deaths.
Section 144.29A - Termination of pregnancy reporting — legislative intent.
Section 144.30 - Funeral director’s duty — fetal death certificate.
Section 144.31 - Medical certification — fetal death.
Section 144.31A - Certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth.
Section 144.32 - Burial transit permit.
Section 144.33 - Bodies brought into state.
Section 144.34 - Disinterment — permit.
Section 144.35 - Extensions of time by rules.
Section 144.36 - Marriage certificate filed — prohibited information.
Section 144.37 - Dissolution and annulment records.
Section 144.38 - Amendment of official record.
Section 144.39 - Change of name.
Section 144.40 - Paternity of children — birth certificates.
Section 144.41 - Amending local records.
Section 144.42 - Reproduction of original records.
Section 144.43 - Vital records closed to inspection — exceptions.
Section 144.43A - Mutual consent voluntary adoption registry.
Section 144.44 - Permits for research.
Section 144.45 - Certified copies.
Section 144.45A - Commemorative birth and marriage certificates.
Section 144.46A - Vital records fund.
Section 144.47 - Persons confined in institutions.
Section 144.48 - Institutions — dead persons.
Section 144.49 - Additional record by funeral director.
Section 144.50 - Length of time records to be kept.
Section 144.51 - Information by others furnished on demand.
Section 144.52 - Unlawful acts — punishment.
Section 144.53 - Other acts — simple misdemeanors.
Section 144.54 - Report to county attorney.
Section 144.55 - Attorney general to assist in enforcement.
Section 144.57 - Public safety officer death — required notice — autopsy.