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Health and Safety Code § 102135

CHAPTER 1. General Provisions

Current as of September 28, 2026Health & Saf. Code, § 102135Official source ↗

Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 1996.

(a) All physicians, informants, funeral directors, clergy, or judges and all other persons having knowledge of the facts, shall supply upon the prescribed forms any information that they possess regarding any birth, fetal death, death, or marriage upon demand of the state or local registrar.

(b) All physicians, informants, funeral directors, clergy, judges, public employees, or other persons who supply upon prescribed forms information that they possess regarding any birth, fetal death, death, or marriage shall in no case use a derogatory, demeaning, or colloquial racial or ethnic descriptor.