Vital Statistics and Records

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Section
4-201

Definitions

Section
4-202

Registrars of vital records

Section
4-203

General responsibility

Section
4-204

Birth, death, and fetal death certificates; copies

Section
4-205

County birth, death, and fetal death records

Section
4-206

Marriage, divorce, and annulment records

Section
4-207

Preparation of birth, death, and fetal death certificates

Section
4-208

Birth registration

Section
4-209

Foundling registration

Section
4-210

Delayed birth registration

Section
4-211

New certificates of birth

Section
4-212

Certificates of death; notice to medical examiner

Section
4-213

Fetal death certificates

Section
4-213.1

Stillbirth certificates

Section
4-214

Amendments to vital records

Section
4-215

Burial permits, final disposition, transportation, and disinterment

Section
4-216

Duties of institutions

Section
4-217

Copies of birth, death, fetal death, or marriage certificates; commemorative birth certificates; security protocols

Section
4-218

Population estimates

Section
4-219

Reports

Section
4-219

Reports (Abrogation of amendment effective December 31, 2021.)

Section
4-220

Copies of vital records -- Statistical purposes

Section
4-221

Copies of vital records -- Special projects

Section
4-222

Disclosure of birth record information for subsequent children of parents responsible for child abuse or neglect.

Section
4-223

Use of copies of vital records as evidence

Section
4-224

Disclosure of records

Section
4-225

Enforcement of subtitle

Section
4-226

Prohibited acts

Section
4-227

Penalties