144.5 Duties of registrar.
The state registrar shall:
1. Administer and enforce this chapter and the rules issued under this chapter, and issue instructions for the efficient administration of the statewide system of vital statistics and the division for records and statistics.
2. Direct and supervise the statewide system of vital statistics and the division for records and statistics and be custodian of its records.
3. Direct, supervise, and control the activities of clerks of the district court and county recorders related to the operation of the vital statistics system and provide registrars with necessary postage.
4. Prescribe, print, and distribute the forms required by this chapter and prescribe any other means for transmission of data, as necessary to accomplish complete, accurate reporting.
5. Prepare and publish annual reports of vital statistics of this state and other reports as may be required.
6. Delegate functions and duties vested in the state registrar to officers, to employees of the department, to the clerks of the district court, and to the county registrars as the state registrar deems necessary or expedient.
7. Provide, by rules, for appropriate morbidity reporting.
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §2393; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, §144.8; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §144.5; 81 Acts, ch 64, §1]
88 Acts, ch 1158, §33; 95 Acts, ch 124, §1, 2, 26; 97 Acts, ch 159, §8; 2021 Acts, ch 80, §72
Subsection 1 amended
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.