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Sec. 18.50.330. Fees for services.

(a) The state registrar shall prescribe the fees to be paid for certified copies of certificates, for issuing marriage licenses, for searches of the files or records, for the filing of delayed or substitute certificates, for making amendments, for supplying documentary evidence for these purposes, and for special services rendered by the bureau. (b) [Repealed, […]

Sec. 18.50.340. Persons required to keep records.

(a) A person in charge of an institution shall keep a record of personal particulars and data concerning each person admitted or confined to the institution. This record must include the information required by the certificates of birth, death, and fetal death issued under the provisions of this chapter, and other information required by the […]

Sec. 18.50.350. Duty to furnish information.

A person having knowledge of the facts shall furnish the information the person possesses regarding a birth, death, fetal death, induced termination of pregnancy, marriage, or divorce, upon demand of the state registrar.

Sec. 18.50.500. Identity of biological parents.

(a) After receiving a request by an adopted person 18 years of age or older for the identity of a biological parent of the person, the state registrar shall provide the person with an uncertified copy of the person’s original birth certificate and any change in the biological parent’s name or address attached to the […]

Sec. 18.50.240. Fetal death registration.

(a) A fetal death certificate for each fetal death that occurs in the state shall be filed with the local registrar of the registration district in which the delivery occurred within three days after the delivery and before final disposition of the fetus or removal of the fetus from the state, except as provided by […]

Sec. 18.50.510. Descriptive information regarding biological parents.

(a) The state registrar shall, at the request of an adoptive parent or of an adopted person 18 years of age or older, release the following information regarding a biological parent named on the original birth certificate of the adopted person if available from the registrar’s adoption records: (1) the age of the biological parent […]

Sec. 18.50.245. Report of induced termination of pregnancy.

(a) A hospital, clinic, or other institution where an induced termination of pregnancy is performed in the state shall submit a report directly to the state registrar within 30 days after the induced termination is completed. The report may not contain the name of the patient whose pregnancy was terminated but must contain the information […]

Sec. 18.50.900. Prohibited acts and penalties.

(a) A person is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction is punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both, who (1) without lawful authority and with the intent to deceive, makes, alters, amends, or mutilates a certificate of birth or certified […]

Sec. 18.50.250. Permits.

(a) Except as provided in (e) of this section, the funeral director or person acting as the funeral director who first assumes custody of a dead body or fetus shall obtain a burial-transit permit before final disposition or removal from the state of the body or fetus and within 72 hours after death, except as […]

Sec. 18.50.950. Definitions.

In this chapter, (1) “adoptive parent” means a person who has adopted another person under AS 25.23; (2) “biological parent” means a parent named on the original certificate of birth of an adopted person; (3) “bureau” means the Bureau of Vital Statistics; (4) “commissioner” means the commissioner of health; (5) “dead body” means a lifeless […]