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Chapter 3705

Vital Statistics

3705.01Vital statistics definitions.3705.02Statewide system of vital statistics - office of vital statistics.3705.03State registrar is head of office of vital statistics - powers and duties.3705.04Registration districts.3705.05Local registrars - deputy registrar - records.3705.06Local registrar to supply forms of certificates.3705.07Keeping and transmitting records by local registrar.3705.071Copy of death certificate of child to be sent to county of residence.3705.08Director shall prescribe forms.3705.09Filing and registration of birth certificate.3705.091Acknowledgment of paternity affidavits.3705.10Delayed birth certificate.3705.11Report of foundling child.3705.12Issuance of new or foreign birth record after adoption - access to original record, adoption file.3705.121Adoption decreed in out-of-state court.3705.122Foreign birth record.3705.123Records for adoptions decreed before 1/1/1964.3705.124Application for new birth record.3705.125Prima facie evidence.3705.126Confidentiality.3705.13Filing court order of change of name - new birth certificate.3705.14Supplemental report for given name.3705.15Registration of unrecorded birth - correction of birth record.3705.16Statement of facts in certificates - death certificate.3705.17Burial permit required - records to be kept.3705.18Authorization for final disposition of body transported into state.3705.19Death certificate to state whether deceased served in the armed forces.3705.20Fetal death certificate.3705.21Registration of marriages, divorces, dissolutions, annulments and corrections of marriage certificate.3705.22Birth certificate to be amended to correct errors.3705.23Copies of vital records.3705.231Copy of birth record.3705.24Fees - annual certification by director of health to county treasurers.3705.241Fee for copy of adoption file - adoption records fund.3705.242Fee for copy of birth or death records - divorce decree filing fee.3705.25Local registrar, deputy registrar or sub-registrar to be removed for failing to discharge official duties.3705.26Demand for information by state registrar.3705.27Matching of birth and death records to protect integrity of vital records.3705.28Prior records valid.3705.29Prohibited acts.3705.30Statewide birth defects information system.3705.31Purposes of system.3705.32Records are confidential - exceptions.3705.33Parent or legal guardian may request information concerning child to be removed from system.3705.35Rules.3705.36Annual report regarding system.3705.40Access to preliminary birth and death data maintained by department.3705.41Vital records training.3705.99Penalty.