130A-110. Registration of marriage certificates.
(a) On or before the fifteenth day of the month, the register of deeds shall transmit to the State Registrar a record of each marriage ceremony performed during the preceding calendar month for which a license was issued by the register of deeds. The State Registrar shall prescribe a form containing the information required by G.S. 51-16 and additional information to conform with the requirements of the federal agency responsible for national vital statistics. The form shall be the official form of a marriage license, certificate of marriage and application for marriage license.
(b) Each form signed and issued by the register of deeds, assistant register of deeds or deputy register of deeds shall constitute an original or a duplicate original. Upon request, the State Registrar shall furnish a true copy of the marriage registration. The copy shall have the same evidentiary value as the original.
(c) The register of deeds shall provide copies or abstracts of marriage certificates to any person upon request. Certified copies of these certificates shall be provided only to those persons described in G.S. 130A-93(c).
(d) Marriage certificates maintained by the local register of deeds shall be open to inspection and examination. (1961, c. 862; 1969, c. 1031, s. 1; 1973, c. 476, s. 128; 1977, c. 1110, s. 3; 1983, c. 891, s. 2; 1985, c. 325, s. 2; 2001-62, s. 15; 2001-487, s. 83.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
§ 130A-90 - Vital statistics program.
§ 130A-92 - Duties of the State Registrar.
§ 130A-93 - Access to vital records; copies.
§ 130A-93.1 - Fees for vital records copies or search; automation fund.
§ 130A-95 - Control of local registrar.
§ 130A-96 - Appointment of deputy and sub-registrars.
§ 130A-97 - Duties of local registrars.
§ 130A-98 - Pay of local registrars.
§ 130A-99 - Register of deeds to preserve copies of birth and death records.
§ 130A-100 - Register of deeds may perform notarial acts.
§ 130A-101 - Birth registration.
§ 130A-102 - Contents of birth certificate.
§ 130A-104 - Registration of birth one year or more after birth.
§ 130A-105 - Validation of irregular registration of birth certificates.
§ 130A-106 - Establishing fact of birth by persons without certificates.
§ 130A-108 - Certificate of identification for individual of foreign birth.
§ 130A-109 - Birth certificate as evidence.
§ 130A-110 - Registration of marriage certificates.
§ 130A-111 - Registration of divorces and annulments.
§ 130A-112 - Notification of death.
§ 130A-113 - Permits for burial-transit, authorization for cremation and disinterment-reinterment.
§ 130A-114 - Fetal death registration; certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth.
§ 130A-115 - Death registration.
§ 130A-116 - Contents of death certificate.
§ 130A-117 - Persons required to keep records and provide information.
§ 130A-118 - Amendment of birth and death certificates.
§ 130A-120 - Certification of birth dates furnished to veterans' organizations.