Iowa Code
Title IV - PUBLIC HEALTH
Chapter 144 - VITAL STATISTICS

Section 144.1 - Definitions. - 144.1 Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context...

Section 144.2 - Division of records and statistics. - 144.2 Division of records and statistics. There is established in...

Section 144.3 - Rules adopted. - 144.3 Rules adopted. The department may adopt, amend, and repeal...

Section 144.4 - Registrar. - 144.4 Registrar. The director of public health shall be the...

Section 144.5 - Duties of registrar. - 144.5 Duties of registrar. The state registrar shall: 1. Administer...

Section 144.9 - County recorder as registrar. - 144.9 County recorder as registrar. The county recorder is the...

Section 144.11 - Public access to records. - 144.11 Public access to records. The county registrar shall allow...

Section 144.12 - Forms uniform. - 144.12 Forms uniform. In order to promote and maintain uniformity...

Section 144.12A - Declaration of paternity registry. - 144.12A Declaration of paternity registry. 1. As used in this...

Section 144.13 - Birth certificates. - 144.13 Birth certificates. 1. Certificates of births shall be filed...

Section 144.13A - Fees — use of funds — electronic birth certificate system. - 144.13A Fees — use of funds — electronic birth certificate...

Section 144.13B - Waiver of fees — military service. - 144.13B Waiver of fees — military service. Notwithstanding any provision...

Section 144.14 - Foundlings. - 144.14 Foundlings. 1. A person who assumes the custody of...

Section 144.15 - Delayed registrations of birth. - 144.15 Delayed registrations of birth. 1. When the birth of...

Section 144.16 - Delayed registration of death or marriage. - 144.16 Delayed registration of death or marriage. When a death...

Section 144.17 - Petition to establish certificate. - 144.17 Petition to establish certificate. 1. If a delayed certificate...

Section 144.18 - Court hearing. - 144.18 Court hearing. 1. The court shall fix a time...

Section 144.19 - Adoption certificate. - 144.19 Adoption certificate. For each adoption decreed by any court...

Section 144.20 - Information. - 144.20 Information. Information in the possession of the petitioner necessary...

Section 144.21 - Amended record. - 144.21 Amended record. Whenever an adoption decree is amended or...

Section 144.22 - Clerk to report to state registrar. - 144.22 Clerk to report to state registrar. Not later than...

Section 144.23 - State registrar to issue new certificate. - 144.23 State registrar to issue new certificate. The state registrar...

Section 144.24 - Substituting new for original birth certificates — inspection. - 144.24 Substituting new for original birth certificates — inspection. 1....

Section 144.24A - Access to original certificate of birth — application — contact preference form — medical history form — fees. - 144.24A Access to original certificate of birth — application —...

Section 144.25 - No previous certificate — procedure. - 144.25 No previous certificate — procedure. 1. If no certificate...

Section 144.25A - Certificate of birth — foreign and international adoptions. - 144.25A Certificate of birth — foreign and international adoptions. The...

Section 144.26 - Death certificate. - 144.26 Death certificate. 1. a. A death certificate for each...

Section 144.27 - Funeral director’s duties — death certificate — disposition of unclaimed veterans’ remains. - 144.27 Funeral director’s duties — death certificate — disposition of...

Section 144.28 - Medical certification. - 144.28 Medical certification. 1. a. For the purposes of this...

Section 144.29 - Fetal deaths. - 144.29 Fetal deaths. 1. A fetal death certificate for each...

Section 144.29A - Termination of pregnancy reporting — legislative intent. - 144.29A Termination of pregnancy reporting — legislative intent. 1. A...

Section 144.30 - Funeral director’s duty — fetal death certificate. - 144.30 Funeral director’s duty — fetal death certificate. The funeral...

Section 144.31 - Medical certification — fetal death. - 144.31 Medical certification — fetal death. 1. The medical certification...

Section 144.31A - Certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth. - 144.31A Certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth. 1. As used...

Section 144.32 - Burial transit permit. - 144.32 Burial transit permit. 1. If a person other than...

Section 144.33 - Bodies brought into state. - 144.33 Bodies brought into state. A burial transit permit issued...

Section 144.34 - Disinterment — permit. - 144.34 Disinterment — permit. 1. a. Disinterment of a dead...

Section 144.35 - Extensions of time by rules. - 144.35 Extensions of time by rules. The department may, by...

Section 144.36 - Marriage certificate filed — prohibited information. - 144.36 Marriage certificate filed — prohibited information. 1. A certificate...

Section 144.37 - Dissolution and annulment records. - 144.37 Dissolution and annulment records. 1. For each dissolution or...

Section 144.38 - Amendment of official record. - 144.38 Amendment of official record. To protect the integrity and...

Section 144.39 - Change of name. - 144.39 Change of name. Upon receipt of a certified copy...

Section 144.40 - Paternity of children — birth certificates. - 144.40 Paternity of children — birth certificates. Upon request and...

Section 144.41 - Amending local records. - 144.41 Amending local records. When a certificate is amended under...

Section 144.42 - Reproduction of original records. - 144.42 Reproduction of original records. To preserve original documents, the...

Section 144.43 - Vital records closed to inspection — exceptions. - 144.43 Vital records closed to inspection — exceptions. 1. To...

Section 144.43A - Mutual consent voluntary adoption registry. - 144.43A Mutual consent voluntary adoption registry. 1. In addition to...

Section 144.44 - Permits for research. - 144.44 Permits for research. The department may permit access to...

Section 144.45 - Certified copies. - 144.45 Certified copies. 1. The state registrar and the county...

Section 144.45A - Commemorative birth and marriage certificates. - 144.45A Commemorative birth and marriage certificates. Upon application and payment...

Section 144.46 - Fees. - 144.46 Fees. 1. The department by rule shall establish fees...

Section 144.46A - Vital records fund. - 144.46A Vital records fund. 1. A vital records fund is...

Section 144.47 - Persons confined in institutions. - 144.47 Persons confined in institutions. Every person in charge of...

Section 144.48 - Institutions — dead persons. - 144.48 Institutions — dead persons. When a dead human body...

Section 144.49 - Additional record by funeral director. - 144.49 Additional record by funeral director. A funeral director or...

Section 144.50 - Length of time records to be kept. - 144.50 Length of time records to be kept. Records maintained...

Section 144.51 - Information by others furnished on demand. - 144.51 Information by others furnished on demand. Any person having...

Section 144.52 - Unlawful acts — punishment. - 144.52 Unlawful acts — punishment. Any person committing any of...

Section 144.53 - Other acts — simple misdemeanors. - 144.53 Other acts — simple misdemeanors. Any person committing any...

Section 144.54 - Report to county attorney. - 144.54 Report to county attorney. The department shall report cases...

Section 144.55 - Attorney general to assist in enforcement. - 144.55 Attorney general to assist in enforcement. Upon request of...

Section 144.56 - Autopsy. - 144.56 Autopsy. 1. An autopsy or postmortem examination may be...

Section 144.57 - Public safety officer death — required notice — autopsy. - 144.57 Public safety officer death — required notice — autopsy....