South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 25 - Vital Records And Burial Permits
Section 34-25-25 - Fact of death record filed by funeral director--Sources of data--Place and time of filing.

South Dakota Codified Laws

Title 34 - Public Health and Safety

Chapter 25 - Vital Records And Burial Permits

Section 34-25-1 - Department of Health to have charge of registration.

Section 34-25-1.1 - Definition of terms.

Section 34-25-4 - Vital registration districts--Establishment, consolidation or subdivision.

Section 34-25-4.1 - Register of deeds or designee as local registrar--Fees--Deputy, appointment, and duty.

Section 34-25-8 - Birth registration--Certificate of live birth--Time for filing--Availability of records.

Section 34-25-8.1 - Birth in moving conveyance.

Section 34-25-9 - Birth in institution--Attending physician or physician's designee to prepare certificate--Filing certificate.

Section 34-25-9.1 - Birth outside institution--Persons responsible for certificate--Evidence required--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 34-25-9.2 - Birth certificate signed by parents or informant.

Section 34-25-13.1 - Husband's name entered on birth certificate--Father's name as determined in paternity proceeding or by affidavits.

Section 34-25-13.2 - Parents' consent or judicial determination required to name father in birth certificate when mother unmarried.

Section 34-25-13.3 - Unmarried mother's surname shown on birth certificate unless paternity acknowledged.

Section 34-25-13.4 - Father not named on birth certificate--No other information entered.

Section 34-25-14 - Child of unknown parents--Physician to name child and file birth certificate.

Section 34-25-15 - Legitimation of child--New birth certificate--Fee.

Section 34-25-16 - Adoption information forwarded by clerk of courts.

Section 34-25-16.1 - New birth certificate upon adoption of child born in state or foreign nation--Exception.

Section 34-25-16.2 - Birth certificate after adoption when birth unrecorded.

Section 34-25-16.3 - Adoption information on child born out-of-state forwarded to state of birth.

Section 34-25-16.4 - Sealing of original birth certificate after new certificate issued--Opening of sealed materials.

Section 34-25-16.5 - Original birth certificate sealed or forwarded to department after new certificate issued.

Section 34-25-16.6 - Copies of birth certificates.

Section 34-25-16.7 - Determining mother for birth certificate.

Section 34-25-16.8 - New birth certificate for certain crime victims--Sealing.

Section 34-25-18 - Medical certificate signed by attending physician, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner--Time for execution.

Section 34-25-18.1 - Determination of death.

Section 34-25-21 - Notice of death without attending physician, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner--Preparation of medical certificate--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 34-25-22 - Reference to state's attorney, sheriff, or police of death from other than natural causes.

Section 34-25-22.1 - Blood samples taken in violent or accidental death cases--Transmission to laboratory.

Section 34-25-24 - Permit required for disposition of dead body or fetus.

Section 34-25-24.1 - Notice to funeral director--Communicable disease or condition.

Section 34-25-25 - Fact of death record filed by funeral director--Sources of data--Place and time of filing.

Section 34-25-25.1 - Place of filing death certificate when place of death unknown or in moving conveyance required.

Section 34-25-32.1 - Report required of certain fetal deaths other than abortions.

Section 34-25-32.2 - Fetal death report filed by physician--Coroner to report unattended deaths.

Section 34-25-32.3 - Disposition of remains of embryo or fetus.

Section 34-25-32.4 - Medical facility to provide for disposal of aborted fetuses.

Section 34-25-32.5 - Failure to comply as public nuisance.

Section 34-25-32.6 - Disposition of fetal remains--Method.

Section 34-25-32.7 - Fetal organ, tissue donation--Circumstances--Consent required.

Section 34-25-32.8 - Definitions related to stillbirth.

Section 34-25-32.9 - Notice to parent of means for requesting a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth.

Section 34-25-32.10 - Name of stillborn child on certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth.

Section 34-25-32.11 - Fetal death report to be referenced on certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth.

Section 34-25-32.12 - Form and content of certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth.

Section 34-25-32.13 - Certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth not used to calculate live birth statistics.

Section 34-25-32.14 - Fee for certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth.

Section 34-25-32.15 - Certificate may be requested without regard to filing date of fetal death report.

Section 34-25-32.16 - Certificate may be requested without regard to date of fetal death.

Section 34-25-33 - Burial or removal permit filed by funeral director after final disposition.

Section 34-25-34 - Burial-transit permit issued out-of-state as authority for final disposition.

Section 34-25-36 - Records and monthly report of funeral director.

Section 34-25-38 - Cemetery to require burial, removal, disinterment, or transit permit--Promulgation of rules.

Section 34-25-38.1 - Issuance of disinterment permit.

Section 34-25-39 - Completion of burial permit when no person in charge of cemetery.

Section 34-25-42 - Delayed registration of birth, death, or marriage--Fee.

Section 34-25-43 - Software, blanks and forms supplied by department--Use of forms or exact electronic replicas required.

Section 34-25-44 - Blank forms supplied by local registrar--Examination of permit for disposition on presentation.

Section 34-25-45 - Legibility of records and certificates--Incomplete or illegible certificates not filed.

Section 34-25-46 - Signing, dating, and numbering of permits for disposition by local registrar.

Section 34-25-51 - Amendment of vital record--Fee for delayed amendment.

Section 34-25-52 - Copies of certified or informational records supplied by department or local registrars--Application--Time--Fees.

Section 34-25-52.1 - Copies or data supplied to public or private agencies.

Section 34-25-52.2 - Additional fee for copy of birth record--Disposition.

Section 34-25-52.3 - Free birth certificate with head start enrollment form.

Section 34-25-52.4 - Uniform forms and procedures for issuance of copies of records--Rules.

Section 34-25-52.5 - Construction of chapter--Disclosure of specified information on birth, marriage, or divorce certificates--Admissibility.

Section 34-25-52.6 - Disclosure of information in or inspection or copying of vital record--Authorization of chapter or court.

Section 34-25-54 - Certified copies supplied free for military or veterans' claims--Minors participating in sports programs.

Section 34-25-57 - Violation of requirements as misdemeanor.

Section 34-25-57.2 - Unintentional issuance of certified copy of vital record fraudulently obtained--Personal liability.

Section 34-25-58 - Enforcement and supervisory powers of department--Investigations by secretary.

Section 34-25-61 - Severability of provisions.

Section 34-25-62 - Electronic list of persons married in South Dakota.