The State Board of Health shall prescribe the fees to be paid for certified copies of certificates or records, or for a search of the files or records when no copy is made.
The collection of such fees may be accomplished by acceptance of cash, money orders, credit cards, organization or personal checks; in the event money orders or checks are proved to be noncollectible, neither the Board of Health, the Commissioner of Health, nor any of the employees of the Department of Health will be held responsible and personally liable; it is further required that no additional certified copies of records may be delivered to persons on whom noncollectible drafts remain outstanding.
A search and a verification of birth facts shall be furnished free of charge to any person volunteering for enlistment into a branch of the Armed Forces of the United States, upon written request therefor by an officer of the Armed Forces representing the interests of such person who shall be volunteering for service.
Added by Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 3, § 325, operative July 1, 1963. Amended by Laws 1968, c. 184, § 1; Laws 1970, c. 67, § 1, emerg. eff. March 17, 1970; Laws 2011, c. 105, § 16, eff. Nov. 1, 2011.