§2709. Duty of state registrar when law violated
When the state registrar believes that, in any place in this State, the certificates or records of live births, marriages, deaths or fetal deaths are not made or kept as is provided by law, or that any person neglects or fails to perform any duty required in the law relating to the registration of vital statistics, the state registrar may visit such places and make such investigations as the state registrar considers necessary, and all records, blanks and papers of municipal clerks relating to live births, marriages, deaths or fetal deaths must be open to the state registrar's examination. [PL 2009, c. 601, §14 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1973, c. 567, §20 (AMD). PL 2009, c. 601, §14 (AMD).
Structure Maine Revised Statutes
Part 6: BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS
Chapter 701: GENERAL PROVISIONS
22 §2701. Duties of department
22 §2701-A. Contents of certificates and reports
22 §2702. Duties of municipal clerks
22 §2702-A. Duties to furnish information
22 §2702-B. Electronic transmittal of marriage certificates
22 §2703. Birth, marriage or death in unincorporated place
22 §2704. Registration of births and deaths at Togus
22 §2705. Amendment of vital statistics records
22 §2706. Disclosure of vital records
22 §2706-A. Adoption contact files
22 §2707. Evidentiary character of vital records