It is unlawful for:

1. (1) anyone other than the Department of Health and Environmental Control and county health departments to issue copies or certified copies of birth and death certificates or any document purporting to be a birth or death certificate;
2. (2) any person to wilfully make a false statement in a certificate, record, or report required to be filed by law or in an application for an amendment to it or in an application for a certified copy of a vital record, or to wilfully supply false information intending that the information be used in the preparation of any report, record, or certificate, or amendment to it;
3. (3) any person without lawful authority and with the intent to deceive, make, counterfeit, alter, amend, or mutilate any certificate, record, or report required to be filed by law or a certified copy of such certificate, record, or report;
4. (4) any person to wilfully and knowingly obtain, possess, use, sell, furnish, or attempt to obtain, possess, use, sell, or furnish to another, for any purpose of deception, any certificate, record, report, or certified copy thereof so made, counterfeited, altered, amended, or mutilated;
5. (5) any person to violate any regulation or order of the department relative to recording, reporting, or filing information for the Bureau of Vital Statistics;

6. (6) any person to wilfully neglect or refuse to perform any necessary or reasonable duties imposed upon him by any regulation or order of the department relative to recording, reporting, or filing information for the Bureau of Vital Statistics.

   Any person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more than two years, or both.