§ 31-10-13.1. Certified Copies of Orders and Registration of Legitimations and Paternity Orders
For each legitimation, annulment of legitimation, and amendment of an order of legitimation decreed by a court of competent jurisdiction in this state, the clerk of the court shall not later than the fifteenth day of each calendar month or more frequently, as directed by the state registrar, forward to the state registrar a certified […]
§ 31-10-28. Institutions to Keep Vital Records
Every person in charge of an institution shall keep a record of personal data concerning each person admitted or confined to such institution. This record shall include such information as required for the certificates of birth and death and the reports of spontaneous fetal death and induced termination of pregnancy required by this chapter. The […]
§ 31-10-13.2. Provision of Copies of Legitimation and Paternity Orders to State Registrar
In each case in which an order declaring paternity is entered by a court of competent jurisdiction in this state or by the Office of State Administrative Hearings, the clerk of the court or the Office of State Administrative Hearings shall not later than the fifteenth day of each calendar month or more frequently, as […]
§ 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
Any person having knowledge or facts concerning any birth, death, spontaneous fetal death, marriage, induced termination of pregnancy, divorce, dissolution of marriage, or annulment may disclose such facts to the state registrar, and such disclosure shall be absolutely privileged and no cause or action may be brought or maintained against such person for such disclosure. […]
§ 31-10-14. Issuance of New Certificate of Birth Following Adoption and Legitimation or Paternity Determination
The state registrar shall establish a new certificate of birth for a person born in this state when the state registrar receives the following: A report of adoption as provided in Code Section 31-10-13 or a report of adoption prepared and filed in accordance with the laws of another state or foreign country, or a […]
§ 31-10-30. Posting Facts of Death to Birth Certificates
To protect the integrity of vital records and to prevent the fraudulent use of birth certificates of deceased persons, the state registrar is authorized to match birth and death certificates, in accordance with written standards promulgated by the state registrar to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the fact of death and to post the facts […]
§ 31-10-15. Death Certificate; Filing; Medical Certification; Forwarding Death Certificate to Decedent’s County of Residence; Purging Voter Registration List
A certificate of death for each death which occurs in this state shall be filed with the local registrar of the county in which the death occurred or the body was found within ten days after the death as follows: If the place of death is unknown but the dead body is found in this […]
§ 31-10-16. Criteria for Pronouncing Death; Immunity From Liability
A person may be pronounced dead by a qualified physician, by a registered professional nurse or nurse practitioner authorized to make a pronouncement of death under Code Section 31-7-16 or 31-7-176.1, by an advanced practice registered nurse authorized to make a pronouncement of death under subsection (o) of Code Section 43-34-25, or by a physician […]
§ 31-10-17. State Registration of Death Certificates; Certified Copies; Certificates of Record
When a death certificate is filed with a local registrar, it shall be transmitted to the State Office of Vital Records for state registration immediately upon receipt. After registration and the assignment of a state file number, an authorized copy of the death certificate shall be returned to the local custodian. Certified copies of such […]
§ 31-10-18. Registration of Spontaneous Fetal Deaths
A report of spontaneous fetal death for each spontaneous fetal death which occurs in this state shall be filed with the local registrar of the county in which the delivery occurred within 72 hours after such delivery in accordance with this Code section unless the place of fetal death is unknown, in which case a […]