Effective: June 3, 2014 Latest Legislation: House Bill 95 – 130th General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) “Live birth” means the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of human conception that after such expulsion or extraction breathes or shows any other evidence of life such as beating of the […]
Effective: March 16, 1989 Latest Legislation: House Bill 790 – 117th General Assembly A statewide system of registration of births, deaths, fetal deaths, and other vital statistics is hereby established, which shall consist of the office of vital statistics in the department of health and primary registration districts. The office of vital statistics shall be […]
Effective: March 16, 1989 Latest Legislation: House Bill 790 – 117th General Assembly (A) The director of health shall designate the state registrar, who shall head the office of vital statistics and do all of the following: (1) Administer and enforce this chapter, the rules issued under this chapter, and the instructions of the director […]
Effective: March 16, 1989 Latest Legislation: House Bill 790 – 117th General Assembly The state shall be divided into registration districts. Each health district created by section 3709.01 of the Revised Code constitutes a primary registration district. The director of health may combine two or more primary registration districts, and may establish any state hospital, […]
Effective: February 12, 2001 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 172 – 123rd General Assembly In each primary registration district, the board of health of the health district, on the recommendation of the health commissioner, shall appoint the local registrar of vital statistics. When a state hospital or other public institution has been made a primary registration […]
Effective: March 16, 1989 Latest Legislation: House Bill 790 – 117th General Assembly The local registrar of vital statistics shall supply blank forms of certificates and instructions to such persons as require them, and shall require each birth, fetal death, or death certificate, when presented for filing, to be made out in accordance with sections […]
Effective: October 17, 2019 Latest Legislation: House Bill 166 – 133rd General Assembly (A) The local registrar of vital statistics shall number consecutively each fetal death and death certificate printed on paper that the local registrar receives from the electronic death registration system (EDRS) maintained by the department of health. The number assigned to each […]
Effective: October 5, 2000 Latest Legislation: House Bill 448 – 123rd General Assembly On receipt of a death certificate of a person who was under eighteen years of age at death, the local registrar of vital statistics shall determine the county in which the person resided at the time of death. If the county of […]
Effective: September 29, 2017 Latest Legislation: House Bill 49 – 132nd General Assembly (A) The director of health, by rule, shall prescribe the form of records and certificates required by this chapter. Records and certificates shall include the items and information prescribed by the director, including the items recommended by the national center for health […]
Effective: October 17, 2019 Latest Legislation: House Bill 166 – 133rd General Assembly (A) A birth certificate for each live birth in this state shall be filed in the registration district in which it occurs within ten calendar days after such birth and shall be registered if it has been completed and filed in accordance […]
Effective: March 22, 2001 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 180 – 123rd General Assembly (A) If the natural mother and alleged father of a child sign an acknowledgment of paternity affidavit prepared pursuant to section 3111.31 of the Revised Code with respect to that child at the office of the local registrar, the local registrar shall […]
Effective: October 17, 2019 Latest Legislation: House Bill 166 – 133rd General Assembly Any birth certificate submitted for filing eleven or more days after the birth occurred constitutes a delayed birth registration. A delayed birth certificate may be filed in accordance with rules which shall be adopted by the director of health. The rules shall […]
Effective: March 16, 1989 Latest Legislation: House Bill 790 – 117th General Assembly Whoever finds a living infant of unknown parentage shall immediately report such finding to the local registrar of vital statistics of the registration district in which the child is found, on a prescribed form which shall state: (A) Date of finding; (B) […]
Effective: March 20, 2015 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 23 – 130th General Assembly Upon receipt of the items sent by a probate court pursuant to section 3107.19 of the Revised Code concerning the adoption of a child born in this state whose adoption was decreed on or after January 1, 1964, the department of health […]
Effective: March 20, 2015 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 23 – 130th General Assembly When the adoption of a child whose birth occurred in this state is decreed by a court in another state and when the department of health has received, from the court that decreed the adoption, an official communication containing information similar to […]
Effective: March 20, 2015 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 23 – 130th General Assembly (A) The department of health shall issue a foreign birth record as follows: (1) On receipt of the items sent by a probate court pursuant to section 3107.19 of the Revised Code concerning the adoption of a person born in a foreign […]
Effective: March 20, 2015 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 23 – 130th General Assembly No original birth record of any person whose birth occurred in this state and whose adoption was decreed before January 1, 1964, no birth record in the adopted name of any person whose birth occurred in this state and whose adoption was […]
Effective: March 20, 2015 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 23 – 130th General Assembly An adopted person whose birth occurred in this state, whose adoption was decreed before January 1, 1964, who did not have a new or reissued birth record in the person’s adopted name prepared pursuant to division (C) or (D) of section 3705.12 […]
Effective: March 20, 2015 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 23 – 130th General Assembly A new birth record or foreign birth record, and any certified or exact copy of the new birth record or foreign birth record, when properly authenticated by a duly authorized person, shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and places of […]
Effective: March 20, 2015 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 23 – 130th General Assembly The department of health shall neither open an adoption file nor make its contents available except as follows: (A) The department shall inspect the file to determine the court involved for the purpose of division (D) of section 3107.09 or section 3107.091 […]
