1. (a)

   1. (1) The State Registrar of Vital Records, under the direction of the State Board of Health, shall execute and enforce the provisions of the laws and the rules and supervise registrars to the end that all of the requirements shall be uniformly complied with.
   2. (2) The State Registrar of Vital Records shall have authority to investigate cases of irregularity or violation of law, personally or by accredited representative, and all local registrars and their deputies shall aid the State Registrar of Vital Records, upon request, in such investigations.
   3. (3) The State Registrar of Vital Records shall report cases of violation of any of the provisions of the laws and rules to the prosecuting attorney of the proper county, with a statement of facts and circumstances.
2. (b) The State Registrar of Vital Records shall have the authority to cross-reference birth and death certificates on file for the same individual by stamping on the face information necessary to show relation of the two (2) certificates.

3. (c) Upon demand of the State Registrar of Vital Records in person, by mail, or through the local registrar, all physicians, coroners, midwives, administrators in institutions, informants, nurse midwives, circuit or county clerks, or funeral directors, and all other persons having knowledge of the facts, shall furnish such information as they may possess regarding any:

   1. (1) Live birth;
   2. (2) Death;
   3. (3) Fetal death;
   4. (4) Marriage;
   5. (5) Divorce; or
   6. (6) Annulment.

Codification Notes: This section as promulgated prior to codification into the Code of Arkansas Rules provided as follows: "(Reference: Section 7 of Act 1254)"