1. (a)

   1. (1) When carrying out the birth and death matching program, the State Registrar of Vital Records shall establish written guidelines that provide the standards for determining a match does exist.
   2. (2) These standards shall specify the information about the decedent that should be available and that should be compared to the information on the birth certificate before a match can be made.

   3. (3) These items include as a minimum:

      1. (A) Name of decedent;
      2. (B) Name of father and maiden name of mother;
      3. (C) Date of birth or age of decedent;
      4. (D) State of birth of decedent; and
      5. (E) Marital status of decedent.
   4. (4) No match shall be made unless there is documented proof of the fact of death.
2. (b) The date of death, the state where death occurred, and the death certificate number shall be posted to the birth certificate.

Codification Notes: This section as promulgated prior to codification into the Code of Arkansas Rules provided as follows: "(Reference: Section 7 of Act 1254 of 1995)"