1. (a) Full certified copies or birth card certification of vital records may be made by mechanical, electronic, or other reproductive processes, except that the information contained in the “Information for Medical and Health Use Only” section of live birth certificates shall not be included.

2. (b) When a certified copy is issued, each certification shall:

   1. (1) Be signed and certified as a true copy by the State Registrar of Vital Records in whose custody the record is entrusted; and
   2. (2) Include the certificate number, date issued, the state registrar's signature or an authorized facsimile thereof, and the seal of the issuing office shall be affixed thereon.

3. (c)

   1. (1) Confidential verifications of the facts contained in vital records may be furnished by the state registrar to any federal, state, county, or municipal government agency or to any other agency representing the interest of the registrant, subject to the limitations as indicated in subsection (a) of this section above.
   2. (2) Such confidential verifications may be on forms prescribed and furnished by the requesting agency and acceptable to the state registrar or the state registrar may authorize the verification in other ways when it shall prove in the best interest of his or her office.

4. (d)

   1. (1) The state registrar may authorize certifier and originator to make an uncertified copy of a vital record for their files only.
   2. (2) No reproductions are to be issued from this copy for any purpose.

5. (e) All certified copies shall include, at a minimum, the following security features:

   1. (1) Sensitized security paper;
   2. (2) Background security design;
   3. (3) Copy void pantograph; and
   4. (4) Consecutive numbering.

Codification Notes: This section as promulgated prior to codification into the Code of Arkansas Rules provided as follows: "(Reference: Section 12 of Act 1254 of 1995)"