Utah Vital Statistics Act

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Section
1

Short title.

Section
2

Definitions.

Section
3

Department duties and authority.

Section
4

Content and form of certificates and reports.

Section
5

Birth certificates -- Execution and registration requirements.

Section
5.5

Requirement to obtain parents' social security numbers.

Section
6

Foundling certificates.

Section
7

Correction of errors or omissions in vital records -- Conflicting birth and foundling certificates -- Rulemaking.

Section
8

Birth certificates -- Delayed registration.

Section
9

Birth certificates -- Petition for issuance of delayed certificate -- Court procedure.

Section
10

Supplementary certificate of birth.

Section
11

Name or sex change -- Registration of court order and amendment of birth certificate.

Section
12.5

Certified copies of birth certificates -- Fees credited to Children's Account.

Section
12.6

Fee waived for certified copy of birth certificate.

Section
13

Certificate of death -- Execution and registration requirements -- Information provided to lieutenant governor.

Section
14

Fetal death certificate -- Filing and registration requirements.

Section
14.1

Certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth.

Section
14.2

Delayed registration of birth resulting in stillbirth.

Section
14.3

Certificate of early term stillbirth.

Section
15

Petition for establishment of unregistered birth or death -- Court procedure.

Section
16

Certificate of death -- Duties of a custodial funeral service director, an agent of a funeral service director, or a dispositioner -- Medical certification -- Records of funeral service director or dispositioner -- Information filed with local registrar -- Unlawful signing of certificate of death.

Section
17

Certificate of death -- Registration prerequisite to interment -- Burial-transit permits -- Procedure where body donated under anatomical gift law -- Permit for disinterment.

Section
18

Interments -- Duties of sexton or person in charge -- Record of interments -- Information filed with local registrar.

Section
18.5

Rendering a dead body unavailable for postmortem investigation.

Section
19

Rules of department for transmittal of certificates and keeping of records by local registrar.

Section
21

Local registrars authorized to issue certified copies of records.

Section
22

Inspection of vital records.

Section
23

Records required to be kept by health care institutions -- Information filed with local registrar and department.

Section
24

Marriage licenses -- Execution and filing requirements.

Section
25

Divorce or adoption -- Duty of court clerk to file certificates or reports.

Section
26

Certified copies of vital records -- Preparation by state and local registrars -- Evidentiary value.

Section
27

Identifying birth certificates of missing persons -- Procedures.

Section
28

Birth certificate for foreign adoptees.