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Section
31-10-1

Definitions

Section
31-10-2

Maintenance and Operation of Vital Records Registration System

Section
31-10-3

Rules and Regulations

Section
31-10-4

Appointment of State Registrar of Vital Records

Section
31-10-5

Duties and Powers of State Registrar; Delegation of Functions and Duties

Section
31-10-6

Local Registrars, Local Custodians, Special Abstracting Agents, and Deputies; Appointment; Duties

Section
31-10-7

Form of Certificates and Reports; Date Received for Registration Required; Filing or Registration of Information by Photographic, Electronic, or Other Means

Section
31-10-8

Certification to County Treasurers of Birth and Death Certificates and Spontaneous Fetal Death Reports Filed; Fees

Section
31-10-9

Registration of Births

Section
31-10-9.1

Social Security Account Information of Parents

Section
31-10-9.2

Abuse or Neglect Reports; Establishment of Policies and Procedures

Section
31-10-10

Registration of Live Born Infants of Unknown Parentage

Section
31-10-11

Registration of Delayed Certificate of Birth

Section
31-10-12

Judicial Procedure to Establish Facts of Birth

Section
31-10-13

Certificates of Adoption

Section
31-10-13.1

Certified Copies of Orders and Registration of Legitimations and Paternity Orders

Section
31-10-13.2

Provision of Copies of Legitimation and Paternity Orders to State Registrar

Section
31-10-14

Issuance of New Certificate of Birth Following Adoption and Legitimation or Paternity Determination

Section
31-10-15

Death Certificate; Filing; Medical Certification; Forwarding Death Certificate to Decedent's County of Residence; Purging Voter Registration List

Section
31-10-16

Criteria for Pronouncing Death; Immunity From Liability

Section
31-10-17

State Registration of Death Certificates; Certified Copies; Certificates of Record

Section
31-10-18

Registration of Spontaneous Fetal Deaths

Section
31-10-19

Reporting of Induced Termination of Pregnancy

Section
31-10-20

Permits for Disposition, Disinterment, and Reinterment

Section
31-10-21

Record of Marriage Licenses

Section
31-10-22

Record of Divorces, Dissolutions, and Annulments

Section
31-10-23

Amendment of Certificates or Reports

Section
31-10-24

Preservation or Disposition of Vital Records; Certified Reproductions; Preserved Originals and Authorized Reproductions as Property of Department

Section
31-10-25

Disclosure of Information Contained in Vital Records; Transfer of Records to State Archives

Section
31-10-26

Issuance of Certified Copies of Vital Records, Voluntary Acknowledgments of Paternity, Voluntary Acknowledgments of Legitimation; Certificates; Use for Statistical Purposes; Transmittal of Records Out of State; Use for Commercial or Speculative Purposes

Section
31-10-27

Fees for Copies or Services

Section
31-10-28

Institutions to Keep Vital Records

Section
31-10-29

Privileged Nature of Disclosures; Notification of Local Registrar of Institutional Deaths and Fetal Deaths; Notification of Board of Voting Registrars of Adult Deaths

Section
31-10-30

Posting Facts of Death to Birth Certificates

Section
31-10-31

Penalties

Section
31-10-32

Extension of Periods for Filing of Certificates or Reports

Section
31-10-33

Procedure for Stillbirth