DIVISION 102. VITAL RECORDS AND HEALTH STATISTICS [102100. - 103925.]

Division 102 added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 4.

§§ 102100–103925 · 304 sections

PART 1. VITAL RECORDS §§ 102100–103800 · 286 sections
1. CHAPTER 1. General Provisions §§ 102100–102155 · 12 sections
  - § 102100 Each live birth, fetal death, death, and marriage that occurs in the state shall be registered as provided in this part on the prescribed certificate forms. In…
  - § 102105 The department is charged with the uniform and thorough enforcement of this part throughout the state, and may adopt additional regulations for its enforcement.
  - § 102110 The State Registrar shall adopt regulations specifying both of the following: (a) Procedures to assure the confidentiality of the confidential portion of the…
  - § 102115 The department may make and enforce regulations for the embalming, cremation, interment, disinterment and transportation of the dead in matters relating to…
  - § 102120 The State Registrar shall inform all local registrars which diseases are to be considered infectious, contagious, or communicable and dangerous to the public…
  - § 102125 All certificates of live birth, fetal death, or death shall be written legibly, in durable black ink, and a certificate is not complete and correct that does…
  - § 102130 All marriage licenses shall be written legibly and shall be photographically and micrographically reproducible. A marriage license is not complete and correct…
  - § 102134 (a) Beginning no earlier than two years after an appropriation of funds by the Legislature, the State Registrar shall require the use of a diacritical mark on…
  - § 102135 (a) All physicians, informants, funeral directors, clergy, or judges and all other persons having knowledge of the facts, shall supply upon the prescribed…
  - § 102140 No alteration or change in any respect shall be made on any marriage license or certificate after its acceptance for registration by the local registrar, or on…
  - § 102145 Every person in charge of a hospital or other institution to which persons are admitted for treatment or confinement shall make a record of the personal,…
  - § 102155 “Absence of conflicting information relative to parentage” as used in Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 102625) or Chapter 11 (commencing with Section 103225)…
2. CHAPTER 2. Administration §§ 102175–102395 · 48 sections
  1. ARTICLE 1. State Administration §§ 102175–102250 · 22 sections
    § 102175 The director shall be the State Registrar of Vital Statistics.
    § 102180 The State Registrar is charged with the execution of this part in this state, and has supervisory power over local registrars, so that there shall be uniform…
    § 102185 The State Registrar may investigate cases of irregularity or violations of this part.
    § 102190 When the State Registrar deems it necessary, he or she shall report cases of violation of any of the provisions of this part to the district attorney of the…
    § 102195 The Attorney General shall assist in the enforcement of this part upon request of the State Registrar.
    § 102200 The State Registrar shall prescribe and furnish all record forms for use in carrying out the purposes of this part, or shall prescribe the format, quality, and…
    § 102205 The State Registrar shall prepare and issue detailed instructions as may be required to procure the uniform observance of this part and the maintenance of a…
    § 102210 The State Registrar shall establish registration districts within the State for the purposes of this part.
    § 102215 The State Registrar of Vital Statistics may call into conference the local registrars or their chief deputies, in groups and at places within the state as may…
    § 102220 The State Registrar shall carefully examine the certificates received from the local registrars of births, deaths, and fetal deaths, and if they are incomplete…
    § 102225 The State Registrar shall carefully examine the marriage certificates received from the county recorders, and if they are incomplete or unsatisfactory shall…
    § 102230 (a) (1) The State Registrar shall arrange and permanently preserve the certificates in a systematic manner and shall prepare and maintain comprehensive and…
    § 102231 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, birth data files, birth data files for public release, death data files for public release, death data files for purposes of…
    § 102232 (a) (1) Any person who violates Section 102230 or 102231 may be denied further access to the indices or data files maintained by the department. (2) Any person…
    § 102233 (a) The State Registrar shall create a document no later than March 1, 2020, with annual updates no later than March 1 of each year thereafter, disaggregated…
    § 102233.1 (a) (1) The State Registrar shall create a report, disaggregated by county, containing the number of marriage certificates that were transmitted to the State…
    § 102235 Notwithstanding any other provisions of law relating to retention of public records, the State Registrar may cause the original records of birth, death and…
    § 102240 Any certified photographic reproduction of any record stored on a permanent storage medium under this chapter shall be deemed to be a certification of the…
    § 102245 On and after January 1, 1978, whenever the State Registrar receives a death certificate from a local registrar, the State Registrar shall determine whether the…
    § 102247 (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Health Statistics Special Fund. The fund shall consist of revenues, including, but not limited to, all of…
    § 102249 (a) The State Registrar shall expend funds in the Health Statistics Special Fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for all of the following: (1) Support…
    § 102250 (a) (1) The State Registrar shall, upon appropriation, establish a grant program for the purpose of studying extralegal marriages involving minors in the…
  2. ARTICLE 2. Local Administration §§ 102275–102395 · 26 sections
    § 102275 The health officer of any approved local health department, as defined in Article 1 (commencing with Section 101175) of Part 3 of Division 101 and approved…
    § 102280 In other areas, the State Registrar shall appoint a local registrar of births and deaths for each registration district, whose term of office shall be four…
    § 102285 The county recorder is the local registrar of marriages and shall perform all the duties of the local registrar of marriages.
    § 102290 Each assistant or deputy of a local registrar may perform all of the duties of the local registrar in the name and place of his or her principal.
    § 102295 Each local registrar is hereby charged with the enforcement of this part in his or her registration district under the supervision and direction of the State…
    § 102300 Each local registrar shall supply blank forms to persons who require them.
    § 102305 The local registrar of births and deaths shall carefully examine each certificate before acceptance for registration and, if any are not completed in a manner…
    § 102310 The local registrar of marriages shall carefully examine each license before acceptance for registration and, if it is incomplete or unsatisfactory, he or she…
    § 102315 The local registrar shall affix his or her signature to each certificate in attest to the date of acceptance for registration in his or her office.
    § 102320 The local registrar shall number the certificates of live birth, fetal death, and death consecutively in separate series, beginning with number one for the…
    § 102325 The local registrar shall number each marriage certificate consecutively beginning with the number one for either the first event occurring, or first event…
    § 102330 The local registrar shall make a complete and accurate copy of each certificate accepted for registration and shall preserve it in his or her office as the…
    § 102335 Each local registrar of births and deaths shall transmit a copy of each original birth certificate and death certificate to the county recorder for the special…
    § 102345 (a) The local registrar of births and deaths shall transmit each week to the State Registrar all original certificates accepted for registration by him or her…
    § 102346 (a) The local registrar of births and deaths shall transmit each month to the Department of Industrial Relations a copy of each certificate of death for which…
    § 102350 The county board of supervisors may, by resolution, require the local registrar to send a copy of each certificate of death to the physician and surgeon whose…
    § 102355 The local registrar of marriages shall transmit to the State Registrar not less than quarterly all original marriage certificates accepted for registration by…
    § 102356 (a) For purposes of Section 102233, the local registrar of marriages shall submit to the State Registrar, at least annually, all of the following information…
    § 102360 The local registrar of births and deaths shall furnish to the registrar of voters or county clerk not later than the 15th day of each month a notification of…
    § 102365 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a local registrar of births and deaths, after two years from the date of registration and with the approval of, and under…
    § 102370 The local custodian of records is hereby authorized to receive original records or abstracts of records of any birth or death that were filed with any…
    § 102375 Special county records of birth certificates and death certificates transmitted and filed with the county recorder under this article shall be open for…
    § 102380 The county recorder and the local registrar of births and deaths, with the approval and under the supervision of the State Registrar and with the approval of…
    § 102385 If a public agency or private nonprofit agency that receives copies of records pursuant to this section is unable to assure the continued preservation and…
    § 102390 Any record of death and marriage transferred to a public agency or private nonprofit agency pursuant to Section 102380 is exempt from Sections 102230 and…
    § 102395 Special county records of birth, death, and marriage and the local registrar’s records of birth, death, and marriage shall be subject to Sections 26205.5 and…
3. CHAPTER 3. Live Birth Registration §§ 102400–102520 · 23 sections
  1. ARTICLE 1. Duty of Registering Live Birth §§ 102400–102415 · 4 sections
    § 102400 Each live birth shall be registered with the local registrar of births and deaths for the district in which the birth occurred within 21 days following the…
    § 102405 For live births that occur in a hospital, or a state-licensed alternative birth center, as defined in paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) of Section 1204, the…
    § 102410 For those live births occurring in a hospital, and upon a parent’s request, a footprint shall be taken of the child prior to discharge from the facility and…
    § 102415 For live births that occur outside of a hospital or outside of a state-licensed alternative birth center, as defined in paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) of…
  2. ARTICLE 2. Content of Certificate of Live Birth §§ 102425–102475 · 14 sections
    § 102425 (a) The certificate of live birth shall contain those items necessary to establish the fact of the birth and shall contain only the following information: (1)…
    § 102425.1 (a) Notwithstanding Sections 102465 and 102470, the State Registrar of Vital Statistics, with regard to identification of the parents, shall modify the…
    § 102425.2 (a) If the birth mother is one of the parents listed on the certificate of live birth pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section 102425, the birth…
    § 102426 (a) (1) In addition to the items of information collected pursuant to Section 102425, the State Registrar shall instruct all local registrars that have…
    § 102430 (a) The second section of the certificate of live birth as specified in subdivision (b) of Section 102425, the electronic file of birth information collected…
    § 102440 Notwithstanding Sections 102425 and 102430, the department may transmit to the Social Security Administration the information necessary to issue a social…
    § 102445 After public hearing and consultation with the Vital Statistics Advisory Committee, the State Registrar shall adopt regulations specifying the contents of a…
    § 102447 Notwithstanding Section 102430, a parent’s social security number contained in the confidential medical and social information portion of the child’s…
    § 102450 (a) For each registration of live birth submitted to the local registrar pursuant to Section 102400, the hospital administrator, or the person’s…
    § 102455 (a) The medical and health report required pursuant to Section 102445 shall be clearly labeled “Confidential Information for Public Health Use Only.” The…
    § 102460 With the exception of statistical tabulation purposes, the medical and health report shall be kept confidential and access to the report shall be limited to…
    § 102465 (a) The State Registrar shall appoint a Vital Statistics Advisory Committee that shall have the following duties: (1) Review and make recommendations to the…
    § 102470 The State Registrar shall publish within 30 days of receipt of recommendations by the Vital Statistics Advisory Committee, made pursuant to Section 102465, (1)…
    § 102475 (a) Any person who releases a copy of the confidential portion of the certificate of live birth, except as specifically provided by this part, shall be guilty…
  3. ARTICLE 3. Foundling Registration §§ 102500–102520 · 5 sections
    § 102500 A certificate of finding of an unidentified live child of less than one year of age shall be registered with the local registrar of births and deaths by the…
    § 102505 The certificate shall include the name, sex, color or race, the date and place of finding, and the name of the person or institution with whom the child is…
    § 102510 The person or institution with whom the child is placed shall give the child a name; the place in which the child is found shall be known as the legal place of…
    § 102515 The certificate of finding shall be handled in the same manner and shall serve all the purposes of a certificate of live birth.
    § 102520 If the child is later identified and a certificate of birth found or obtained, the fact shall be reported to the State Registrar and he or she shall enter this…
4. CHAPTER 4. Delayed Registration of Birth §§ 102525–102610 · 10 sections
  1. ARTICLE 1. General Provisions §§ 102525–102535 · 3 sections
    § 102525 This chapter is not exclusive of Chapters 3 (commencing with Section 102400) and 12 (commencing with Section 103450), but offer an alternative method of…
    § 102530 Delayed certificates of birth issued pursuant to this chapter shall not be considered as evidence in any action or proceeding involving estates of decedents or…
    § 102535 An application may be filed with the State Registrar for the delayed registration of birth of any person born in this state whose birth is not registered. The…
  2. ARTICLE 2. Application § 102550 · 1 section
    § 102550 The application shall be made on the forms prescribed and furnished by the State Registrar and shall contain information and shall be accompanied by affidavits…
  3. ARTICLE 3. Evidence §§ 102575–102585 · 3 sections
    § 102575 “Affidavit,” as used in this chapter, is defined as a written statement executed under oath by a person who at the time of birth was at least 5 years old and…
    § 102580 “Documentary evidence,” as used in this chapter, is defined as original or certified copies of a record that was executed at least five years prior to the date…
    § 102585 For births that are being registered under this chapter there shall be required documentary evidence and affidavits pursuant to one of the following: (a) Two…
  4. ARTICLE 4. Registration §§ 102600–102610 · 3 sections
    § 102600 (a) Upon receipt by the State Registrar of an application for delayed registration of birth and payment of the required fee, he or she shall review the…
    § 102605 The State Registrar shall send a certified copy of the delayed certificate of birth to the applicant without additional cost.
    § 102610 The State Registrar shall send certified copies of the delayed certificate of birth to the local registrar and the county recorder within which area the birth…
5. CHAPTER 5. Certificates of Birth Following Adoption, Legitimation, Court Determination of Parentage, and Acknowledgment §§ 102625–102769 · 27 sections
  1. ARTICLE 1. Adoption §§ 102625–102710 · 16 sections
    § 102625 The clerk of the court shall complete a report upon a form provided for that purpose and forward the report to the State Registrar within five days after a…
    § 102630 The court reports of adoption that are received by the State Registrar for births that occurred in another state, the District of Columbia, in any territory of…
    § 102635 A new birth certificate shall be established by the State Registrar upon receipt of either of the following: (a) A report of adoption from any court of record…
    § 102640 When requested by the adopting parent or parents, a new certificate shall not be established by the State Registrar.
    § 102645 The new birth certificate shall bear the name of the child as shown in the report of adoption, the names and ages of his or her adopting parents, the date and…
    § 102650 Notwithstanding other provisions in this article, when a child is adopted by an unmarried man or woman, the new certificate shall, if the adopting parent so…
    § 102660 If both adopting parents were in the home at the time of the initial placement of the child for adoption the newly amended birth record may include the names…
    § 102670 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an adopting parent who has adopted a child for whom an amended record has already been prepared under authority of…
    § 102675 At any time after the issuance of a new birth certificate another amended certificate may be issued, at the request of the adopting parents, that omits any or…
    § 102680 The new birth certificate shall supplant any birth certificate previously registered for the child and shall be the only birth certificate open to public…
    § 102685 When a new birth certificate is established under this article, the State Registrar shall inform the local registrar and the county recorder whose records…
    § 102690 For court reports of adoptions received from any court of record of this State, another state, the District of Columbia, or in any territory of the United…
    § 102695 A court report of adoption received from any court of record in this State, wherein the birth occurred outside the United States, the Territories of the United…
    § 102700 The court report of adoption shall be filed with the original record of birth, that shall remain as a part of the records of the State Registrar.
    § 102705 All records and information specified in this article, other than the newly issued birth certificate, shall be available only upon the order of the superior…
    § 102710 The State Registrar shall furnish a certified copy of the newly amended record of birth prepared under authority of this article to the registrant without…
  2. ARTICLE 2. Adjudication of Facts of Parentage §§ 102725–102735 · 3 sections
    § 102725 Whenever the existence or nonexistence of the parent and child relationship has been determined by a court of this state or a court of another state, and upon…
    § 102730 All records and information specified in this article, other than the newly issued birth certificate, shall be available only upon order of a court of record.
    § 102735 The State Registrar shall furnish a certified copy of the newly amended record of birth prepared under authority of this article to the registrant without…
  3. ARTICLE 3. Acknowledgement of Paternity §§ 102750–102765 · 4 sections
    § 102750 Whenever the mother and the other genetic parent or intended parent acknowledges parentage of a child by affidavit, and in the absence of conflicting…
    § 102755 Upon receipt of the application and payment of the required fee, and in the absence of conflicting information on the originally registered certificate of live…
    § 102760 All records and information specified in this article, other than the newly issued birth certificate, shall be available only upon order of a court of record.
    § 102765 The State Registrar shall furnish a certified copy of the new record of birth prepared under authority of this article to the registrant with additional cost.
  4. ARTICLE 4. Voluntary Declaration of Parentage §§ 102766–102769 · 4 sections
    § 102766 (a) When a voluntary declaration of parentage is filed with the Department of Child Support Services pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 7571 of the Family…
    § 102767 (a) When a voluntary declaration of parentage is rescinded pursuant to Section 7575 of the Family Code, an application may be submitted to the State Registrar…
    § 102768 All records and information specified in this article, other than the newly established certificate, shall be available only to those persons specified in…
    § 102769 The State Registrar shall furnish a certified copy of the new record of birth prepared under authority of this article to the registrant without additional…
6. CHAPTER 6. Death Registration §§ 102775–102938 · 26 sections
  1. ARTICLE 1. Duty of Registering Death §§ 102775–102805 · 10 sections
    § 102775 Each death shall be registered with the local registrar of births and deaths in the district in which the death was officially pronounced or the body was…
    § 102778 (a) On or before January 1, 2005, the department shall implement an Internet-based electronic death registration system for the creation, storage, and transfer…
    § 102780 A funeral director, or person acting in lieu thereof, shall prepare the certificate and register it with the local registrar.
    § 102785 The State Registrar, at his or her discretion, may incorporate computer or telephone facsimile technology, or both, in the statewide program of death and fetal…
    § 102790 The funeral director shall obtain the required information other than medical and health section data from the person or source best qualified to supply this…
    § 102791 (a) (1) The State Department of Public Health shall access data within the electronic death registration system implemented pursuant to Section 102778 to…
    § 102792 (a) (1) The State Department of Public Health shall access data within the electronic death registration system implemented pursuant to Section 102778 to…
    § 102795 (a) The medical and health section data and the time of death shall be completed and attested to by the physician and surgeon or nurse practitioner last in…
    § 102800 (a) The medical and health section data and the physician’s, nurse practitioner’s, or coroner’s certification shall be completed by the attending physician or…
    § 102805 An embalmer may authorize his or her signature to be affixed to the certificate after he or she has embalmed a body, as required by this chapter, by a written…
  2. ARTICLE 2. Responsibility of Attending Physician § 102825 · 1 section
    § 102825 (a) The physician and surgeon or nurse practitioner last in attendance, or in the case of a patient in a skilled nursing or intermediate care facility at the…
  3. ARTICLE 3. Responsibility of Coroner §§ 102850–102870 · 5 sections
    § 102850 (a) A physician and surgeon, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, funeral director, or other person shall immediately notify the coroner if they have…
    § 102855 The coroner whose duty it is to investigate such deaths shall ascertain as many as possible of the facts required by this chapter.
    § 102860 The coroner shall state on the certificate of death the disease or condition directly leading to death, antecedent causes, other significant conditions…
    § 102865 In any case involving an infant under the age of one year where the gross autopsy results in a presumed diagnosis of sudden infant death syndrome, the coroner…
    § 102870 (a) In deaths investigated by the coroner or medical examiner where he or she is unable to establish the identity of the body or human remains by visual means,…
  4. ARTICLE 4. Content of Certificate of Death § 102875 · 1 section
    § 102875 The certificate of death shall be divided into two sections: (a) The first section shall contain those items necessary to establish the fact of the death,…
  5. ARTICLE 5. American Indians §§ 102900–102925 · 5 sections
    § 102900 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Birth and death certificate-linking studies done by the department in 1974 and repeated in 1984,…
    § 102905 (a) The Rural Health Division of the department shall cause to be undertaken a three-year study for the purpose of establishing more valid statistics regarding…
    § 102910 For the purpose of conducting the three-year study required pursuant to Section 102905, the department is hereby encouraged to contract with a federally…
    § 102915 The study shall be conducted in three phases, as follows: (a) Phase one of the study shall include research design and data acquisition, including funds for…
    § 102925 The state department shall begin to implement the activities referred to in Sections 102905, 102910, 102915, and 102920 only upon an appropriation for the…
  6. ARTICLE 6. Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data Collection Pilot Program §§ 102935–102938 · 4 sections
    § 102935 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) There is a lack of understanding about the relationship between risk of violent death, such as…
    § 102936 (a) The department shall establish a three-year pilot program in up to six counties that agree to participate, for the identification and collection by…
    § 102937 (a) The coroner or medical examiner shall begin data collection upon completion of the training. For each year of the pilot program, the data shall be…
    § 102938 This article shall become inoperative on the date the State Public Health Officer certifies that the final year of data from the pilot program has been…
7. CHAPTER 7. Fetal Death Registration §§ 102950–103040.1 · 9 sections
  1. ARTICLE 1. Duty of Registering Fetal Death §§ 102950–102970 · 4 sections
    § 102950 (a) Each fetal death in which the fetus has advanced to or beyond the 20th week of uterogestation shall be registered with the local registrar of births and…
    § 102955 A funeral director, or if there is no funeral director, the person acting in lieu thereof, shall prepare the certificate and register it with the local…
    § 102960 A funeral director, or if there is no funeral director, the person acting in lieu thereof, shall obtain the required information other than medical and health…
    § 102970 (a) The department shall regularly, but no less than annually, review fetal death registrations completed pursuant to this chapter to determine whether there…
  2. ARTICLE 2. Responsibility of Attending Physician § 102975 · 1 section
    § 102975 (a) The physician or nurse practitioner, if any, in attendance on the delivery of a fetus shall, within 15 hours after the delivery, state on the certificate…
  3. ARTICLE 3. Responsibility of Coroner § 103005 · 1 section
    § 103005 (a) The coroner shall, within three days after examination of the fetus, state on the certificate of fetal death the time of fetal death, the direct causes of…
  4. ARTICLE 4. Content of Certificate of Fetal Death § 103025 · 1 section
    § 103025 The certificate of fetal death shall contain items as may be designated by the State Registrar and shall be divided into two sections. The first section shall…
  5. ARTICLE 4.5. Missing Angels Act §§ 103040–103040.1 · 2 sections
    § 103040 This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Missing Angels Act.
    § 103040.1 (a) The local registrar of births and deaths of the county in which a fetal death, in which the fetus has advanced beyond the 20th week of uterogestation, is…
8. CHAPTER 8. Permits for Disposition of Human Remains §§ 103050–103105 · 12 sections
  - § 103050 (a) A person shall not dispose of human remains unless both of the following have occurred: (1) There has been obtained and filed with a local registrar a…
  - § 103055 (a) If the certificate of death is properly executed and complete, the local registrar of births and deaths shall issue a permit for disposition that, in all…
  - § 103060 (a) A permit for disposition for the purpose of removing cremated remains or hydrolyzed human remains from the place of cremation, hydrolysis, or interment…
  - § 103065 (a) Upon the presentation of a certificate of death properly executed and completed in accordance with the policies and procedures of the county coroner in…
  - § 103070 The body of any person whose death occurs in this state, or whose body is found in the state, or that is brought in from outside the state, shall not be…
  - § 103075 Except when a permit is not required to be issued pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 103050, the permit shall accompany the body to its destination, where,…
  - § 103080 (a) The person in charge of the place of interment, or the funeral director or person acting as funeral director if no person is in charge, shall sign the…
  - § 103085 When human remains are transported from outside the state into a registration district in California for interment, the permit for disposition, issued in…
  - § 103090 This chapter does not prevent a funeral director from removing a body from the registration district where the death occurred or the body was found to another…
  - § 103095 A permit issued in one county or city is valid and sufficient in any county it specifies as the place of interment.
  - § 103100 If any cemetery is located partly in one registration district and partly in another, only one permit shall be required for interment and a permit authorizing…
  - § 103105 Permits for the disinterment or removal of interred remains shall be required, as specified in Part 2 (commencing with Section 7500) of Division 7.
9. CHAPTER 9. Marriage Registration §§ 103125–103180 · 4 sections
  1. ARTICLE 1. General Provisions § 103125 · 1 section
    § 103125 The forms for the marriage license shall be prescribed by the State Registrar.
  2. ARTICLE 2. Duty of Registering § 103150 · 1 section
    § 103150 Each marriage that is performed shall be registered by the person performing the ceremony as provided by Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 420) of Part 3 of…
  3. ARTICLE 3. Content of Certificate of Registry of Marriage §§ 103175–103180 · 2 sections
    § 103175 (a) The marriage license shall contain as nearly as can be ascertained all of the following and other items as the State Registrar may designate: (1) The first…
    § 103180 (a) Sections 103150 and 103175 do not apply to marriages entered into pursuant to Section 307 of the Family Code. Subdivisions (b) and (c) govern the…
10. CHAPTER 10. Final Decrees of Dissolution of Marriage,or Legal Separation §§ 103200–103205 · 2 sections
  - § 103200 The clerk of the court of each county shall send a copy of every judgment of dissolution of marriage, of legal separation, and of declaration of nullity to the…
  - § 103205 The State Registrar shall maintain a comprehensive and continuous index of all decrees received under Section 103200.
11. CHAPTER 11. Amendment of Records §§ 103225–103449 · 42 sections
  1. ARTICLE 1. Amendment of a Record of Birth, Death or Marriage §§ 103225–103265 · 10 sections
    § 103225 Whenever the facts are not correctly stated in any certificate of birth, death, fetal death, or marriage already registered, the person asserting that the…
    § 103227 (a) (1) Beginning July 1, 2026, if a name is not accurately recorded because of the absence of a diacritical mark on an English letter in any certificate of…
    § 103230 Section 103225 shall be applicable to certificates of birth only in the absence of conflicting information relative to the existence or nonexistence of a…
    § 103235 If the amendment relates to a certificate or marriage license that has not been transmitted to the State Registrar, the local registrar shall review the…
    § 103240 If the amendment relates to a certificate that has been transmitted to the State Registrar, the amendment shall be transmitted to the State Registrar who shall…
    § 103245 If the amendment is accepted, the State Registrar shall transmit copies of the amendment to the county recorder in whose offices copies of the original record…
    § 103250 The State Registrar shall send a certified copy of the newly amended record of birth, death or marriage to the applicant without additional charge, except for…
    § 103255 The amendment shall be filed with and become a part of the record to which it pertains.
    § 103260 (a) A person born in this state whose birth is registered in this state, or the person’s conservator, or if a minor, the person’s parent or guardian, may…
    § 103265 An amended certificate of death of an individual who is a peace officer pursuant to Section 830 of the Penal Code, who was killed in the line of duty, shall be…
  2. ARTICLE 2. Amendment of a Death Record of a Previously Unidentified Body §§ 103275–103280 · 2 sections
    § 103275 The coroner having jurisdiction shall register with the local registrar of births and deaths a certificate of death giving the name of the person and all…
    § 103280 This amendment to the record shall be handled in the manner prescribed in Article 1 (commencing with Section 103225).
  3. ARTICLE 3. Amendment of Medical and Health Section Data on Death, Fetal Death, and Live Birth Records §§ 103300–103305 · 2 sections
    § 103300 (a) Notwithstanding other provisions in this part relative to amendment of a record, if the information originally furnished in the medical and health data…
    § 103305 This amendment shall be handled in the manner prescribed in Article 1 (commencing with Section 103225).
  4. ARTICLE 4. Supplemental Name Reports §§ 103325–103340 · 4 sections
    § 103325 When any certificate of birth of a living child is registered without the name of the child being entered thereon, the local registrar shall make out and…
    § 103330 The parents shall complete the report and return it to the local registrar as soon as the child is named.
    § 103335 The State Registrar shall send a certified copy of the newly amended record of birth to the applicant without additional cost, except for those amendments that…
    § 103340 This amendment to the record shall be handled in the manner prescribed in Article 1 (commencing with Section 103225).
  5. ARTICLE 5. Amendment of Birth Certificate to Delete Racial Slurs §§ 103350–103375 · 6 sections
    § 103350 The purpose of this article is to provide a remedy for correction of birth certificates that contain entries regarding race or color that, in the opinion of…
    § 103355 Any person who was born in this state and whose birth is registered in this state may apply to the State Registrar for the establishment and issuance of a new…
    § 103360 Upon receipt of the application and payment of the required fee, the State Registrar shall establish a new birth certificate for the person.
    § 103365 The entry for race or color in the new certificate shall be as indicated in the application. No reference shall be made in the new birth certificate that it is…
    § 103370 The State Registrar shall transmit a certified copy of a birth certificate newly established under this article to the registrant without additional charge.
    § 103375 When a new birth certificate is established pursuant to this article, the State Registrar shall inform the local registrar and the county recorder whose…
  6. ARTICLE 6. Amendment of Birth Record to Reflect Court Order Change of Name §§ 103400–103410 · 3 sections
    § 103400 (a) If a person who has a birth certificate issued by this state has their name changed by order of a court of this state, another state, the District of…
    § 103405 Upon receipt of the application, affidavit, certified copy of the court order and payment of the required fee, the State Registrar shall review the amendment…
    § 103410 The State Registrar shall furnish a certified copy of the newly amended record of birth prepared under authority of this article to the registrant without…
  7. ARTICLE 7. Revision of Birth and Marriage Records to Reflect Change of Gender and Sex Identifier §§ 103425–103445 · 9 sections
    § 103425 (a) A person may file a petition with the superior court in any county seeking a judgment recognizing the change of gender and sex identifier to female, male,…
    § 103426 (a) The State Registrar shall issue a new birth certificate reflecting a change of gender and sex identifier to female, male, or nonbinary without a court…
    § 103430 (a) A petition for a court order to recognize a change in the petitioner’s gender and sex identifier as female, male, or nonbinary and to direct the issuance…
    § 103431 (a) (1) If a judgment pursuant to Section 103430 includes an order for a new birth certificate for the petitioner and if the petitioner has a birth certificate…
    § 103435 (a) In lieu of separate proceedings, a single petition may be filed with the superior court to change the petitioner’s name and recognize the change to the…
    § 103437 (a) As used in this section, “change of name or gender and sex identifier, or both” means a proceeding for a change of gender and sex identifier pursuant to…
    § 103440 (a) The new birth certificate, marriage license and certificate, or confidential marriage license and certificate established pursuant to this article shall…
    § 103443 (a) The State Registrar shall transmit a certified copy of a birth certificate newly established under this article to the registrant without additional…
    § 103445 This article shall become operative on January 1, 2023.
  8. ARTICLE 8. Revision of Birth Records to Correct Gender Errors Made by Birthing Hospitals or Local Registrars §§ 103446–103449 · 6 sections
    § 103446 It is the intent of the Legislature that this article provide a remedy for the correction of birth certificates that contain gender errors made by the birthing…
    § 103447 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any person born in this state, or, in the case of a minor or incompetent person, his or her parent,…
    § 103447.5 Upon receipt of the application and sworn affidavit or affidavits, and upon payment of the fee required by Section 103700, the State Registrar shall establish…
    § 103448 The new birth certificate established pursuant to this article shall in no way indicate that it is not the original birth certificate of the applicant. The new…
    § 103448.5 The State Registrar shall transmit a certified copy of a birth certificate established pursuant to this article to the applicant, without additional charge.
    § 103449 (a) When a new birth certificate is established pursuant to this article, the State Registrar shall so inform the local registrar and the county recorder whose…
12. CHAPTER 12. Court Proceedings to Establish Record of Birth, Death or Marriage §§ 103450–103490 · 11 sections
  - § 103450 (a) A verified petition may be filed by any beneficially interested person with the clerk of the superior court in and for (1) the county in which the birth,…
  - § 103451 (a) For purposes of this chapter, “mass fatalities incident” means a situation in which any of the following conditions exist: (1) There are more dead bodies…
  - § 103455 The petition shall be verified and shall contain all the facts necessary to enable the court to determine the fact of and the time and place of the birth,…
  - § 103460 If the time and place of birth are not known, the petition shall contain all of the facts known to the petitioner or otherwise available and a statement of the…
  - § 103465 Upon the filing of the petition a hearing shall be fixed by the clerk and at the convenience of the court set at a time not less than five nor more than 10…
  - § 103466 Notwithstanding Section 103465, upon the filing of a petition for a determination of the fact of death in the event of a mass fatalities incident, the clerk…
  - § 103470 The fee for filing the petition is two hundred five dollars ($205). This fee shall be distributed as provided in Section 68085.4 of the Government Code. The…
  - § 103475 If, upon the hearing, the allegations of the petition are established to the satisfaction of the court, the court may make an order determining that the birth,…
  - § 103480 If the time and place of birth are not known, the court shall receive and consider evidence and testimony as may be available and from the facts adduced may,…
  - § 103485 The order shall be made in the form and upon the blank prescribed and furnished by the State Registrar and shall become effective upon a filing of a certified…
  - § 103490 (a) The State Registrar shall send certified copies of the court order delayed certificate to the local registrar and the county recorder within the area in…
13. CHAPTER 13. Recording Certification of Foreign Births and Deaths §§ 103501–103505 · 2 sections
  - § 103501 A county recorder shall issue a certified copy of a foreign birth or death recorded in the office of the county recorder only as an official record of the…
  - § 103505 (a) A certification of birth or death outside of the United States shall not be recorded by the county recorder. (b) This section shall not apply to any…
14. CHAPTER 14. Certified Copy and Verification of Records §§ 103525–103590 · 22 sections
  - § 103525 (a) The State Registrar, local registrar, or county recorder shall, upon request and payment of the required fee, supply to an applicant a certified copy of…
  - § 103525.5 (a) (1) Until January 1, 2006, in addition to the fees prescribed by Sections 103625 and 103626, an applicant for a certified copy of a birth or death record…
  - § 103526 (a) (1) If the State Registrar, local registrar, or county recorder receives a written, faxed, electronic, or digitized image of a request for a certified copy…
  - § 103526.5 (a) Each certified copy of a birth, death, or marriage record issued pursuant to Section 103525 shall include the date issued, the name of the issuing officer,…
  - § 103526.6 (a) The State Registrar, in consultation with the County Recorders’ Association of California and other stakeholders, shall study all security features for…
  - § 103527 (a) The State Registrar shall appoint a Vital Records Protection Advisory Committee to study and make recommendations to protect individual privacy, inhibit…
  - § 103528 The department may create an automated system for the purposes of implementing Sections 103525, 103525.5, 103526, and 103526.5.
  - § 103530 Certified copies of certificates of births shall be issued only when the applicant for the certified copy is able to furnish information, exclusive of file…
  - § 103535 Upon application of a parent, the local registrar or county recorder shall request a copy of a new birth certificate amended under Chapter 5 (commencing with…
  - § 103540 Prior to issuing a certified copy of a birth record, the State Registrar, local registrar, or county recorder shall determine whether their respective birth…
  - § 103545 Certified copies of birth, fetal death, death, and marriage records may be made only by the State Registrar, by duly appointed and acting local registrars…
  - § 103550 Any birth, fetal death, death, or marriage record that was registered within a period of one year from the date of the event under the provisions of this part,…
  - § 103555 A short form of certification of birth registration that shall contain only identification information may be issued by the State Registrar, by the county…
  - § 103560 A short form of certification of death registration, including only identification information and excluding the medical statement of the cause of death, may…
  - § 103565 The Office of the State Registrar, upon request, may furnish the United States Public Health Service with vital statistics relating to births, deaths,…
  - § 103570 A certification limited to a statement as to the date of birth of any child needed for admission to school or for the purpose of securing employment shall be…
  - § 103575 The state or local registrar or county recorder may, without fee verify a date and place of birth, when the applicant can present sufficient information to…
  - § 103577 (a) The local registrar, county recorder, or the State Registrar, shall, without an issuance fee or any other associated fee, issue a certified record of live…
  - § 103578 (a) Each local registrar or county recorder shall, without a fee, issue a certified record of live birth to any person who demonstrates that he or she is a…
  - § 103580 The State Registrar, local registrar or county recorder may use a printed, stamped or photographically reproduced facsimile signature in certifying to a record…
  - § 103585 Certified copies or certification of abstract information required to be filed under authority of Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 103200) in the offices of…
  - § 103590 (a) The State Registrar shall, upon request and payment of a fee, as provided in subdivision (c), supply to any applicant a decorative heirloom certificate, as…
15. CHAPTER 15. Fees of State and Local Registrars §§ 103600–103730 · 26 sections
  1. ARTICLE 1. General Provisions §§ 103600–103615 · 4 sections
    § 103600 The State Registrar and local registrars shall keep a true and correct account of all fees received by them.
    § 103605 (a) The moneys collected by the State Registrar shall be deposited with the Treasurer for credit to the Health Statistics Special Fund, except for the…
    § 103610 The money collected by the local registrar shall be paid by him or her into the county or city treasury.
    § 103615 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no fees other than those provided for in this part shall be charged for the registration of births and deaths or…
  2. ARTICLE 2. Fee for Certified Copy or Search of Records §§ 103625–103660 · 9 sections
    § 103625 (a) A fee of twelve dollars ($12) shall be paid by the applicant for a certified copy of a fetal death or death record. (b) (1) A fee of twelve dollars ($12)…
    § 103626 (a) The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors, upon making findings and declarations supporting the need for governmental oversight and coordination of the…
    § 103627 (a) (1) The Alameda County Board of Supervisors, upon making findings and declarations supporting the need for governmental oversight and coordination of the…
    § 103628 (a) The Solano County Board of Supervisors, upon making findings and declarations for the need for governmental oversight and coordination of the multiple…
    § 103630 If the information supplied by the applicant is not sufficient to enable the State Registrar to supply the certified copy of any record for which application…
    § 103635 Overpayment of the required fee received in the office of the State Registrar shall be retained, except any overpayment shall be refunded upon written request…
    § 103650 The fee for any search of the files and records performed by the custodian of the records for a specific record when no certified copy is made shall be paid in…
    § 103655 No fee shall be charged any publisher or editor of, or reporter employed by, a newspaper of general circulation or a news service to inspect, in the course and…
    § 103660 No fee shall be charged by the State Registrar or local registrar of births and deaths for services rendered to any public entity, except for issuance of a…
  3. ARTICLE 3. Other Fees §§ 103675–103730 · 13 sections
    § 103675 Except as otherwise provided in Section 103065, the fee for issuance of a permit for disposition of human remains is two dollars ($2) payable to the local…
    § 103680 (a) An additional fee of three dollars ($3) for the issuance of a permit for the disposition of human remains pursuant to Section 103675 shall be payable to…
    § 103685 An additional fee of three dollars ($3) shall be paid for the issuance of a permit for disposition, when the permit is required to be issued outside the…
    § 103690 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the local registrar of births and deaths shall pay to the State Registrar by the 10th of the month following the…
    § 103692 (a) (1) Commencing January 1, 2003, in addition to the fees prescribed by Section 103065 and by Sections 103675 to 103685, inclusive, an applicant for a permit…
    § 103695 A fee of eleven dollars ($11) shall be paid to the State Registrar by the applicant at the time of application for a delayed birth registration under Chapter 4…
    § 103700 A fee of eleven dollars ($11) shall be paid to the State Registrar by the applicant for an amendment or revision to a birth, death, or marriage record under…
    § 103705 A fee of eleven dollars ($11) shall be paid to the State Registrar by the applicant for the preparation of an amended record that shall include a certified…
    § 103710 A fee of eleven dollars ($11) shall be paid to the State Registrar by the applicant or when applicable, by the county clerk for the establishment of an amended…
    § 103715 A fee of eleven dollars ($11) shall be paid to the State Registrar by the applicant for the establishment of a new record of birth under Article 3 (commencing…
    § 103720 A fee of eleven dollars ($11) shall be paid to the State Registrar by the applicant for the establishment of an amended record of birth under Article 6…
    § 103725 (a) A fee of eleven dollars ($11) shall be paid to the State Registrar by the applicant for establishment of a new record of birth or marriage license and…
    § 103730 A fee of twenty dollars ($20) for each individual being adopted shall be paid to the clerk of the court at the time of filing the petition in an adoption…
16. CHAPTER 16. Compensation of Appointed Local Registrars of Births and Deaths §§ 103750–103765 · 4 sections
  - § 103750 For local registrars serving under authority of Section 102280 the State Registrar shall quarterly certify to the auditors of the several counties the number…
  - § 103755 All amounts shall be paid by the treasurer of the county in which the registration district is located, upon warrants drawn by the auditor; provided, that no…
  - § 103760 Each local registrar entitled to compensation shall be paid the sum of fifty cents ($0.50) for each birth certificate and each death certificate properly and…
  - § 103765 If no births or no deaths were registered during any week the local registrar is entitled to be paid the sum of fifty cents ($0.50) for each report to that…
17. CHAPTER 17. Penalties §§ 103775–103800 · 6 sections
  1. ARTICLE 1. Misdemeanors §§ 103775–103795 · 5 sections
    § 103775 (a) Every person, except a parent informant for a certificate of live birth and as provided in subdivision (b), who is responsible for supplying information…
    § 103780 (a) Every person, except as provided in subdivision (b), who willfully alters or knowingly possesses more than one altered document, other than as permitted by…
    § 103785 Every person who is required to fill out a certificate of birth, fetal death, or death, or marriage license and register it with the local registrar, or…
    § 103790 Every local registrar, deputy registrar, or subregistrar, who fails, neglects, or refuses to perform his or her duty as required by this part and by the…
    § 103795 Any person who uses any information from a certificate of live birth that is stamped with the notation authorized under subdivision (a) of Section 10056.5 is…
  2. ARTICLE 2. Felony § 103800 · 1 section
    § 103800 Any person who willfully makes or files or causes to be made or filed a false certificate or affidavit under Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 102525) is…
PART 2. POPULATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE §§ 103825–103925 · 18 sections
1. CHAPTER 1. Birth Defects Monitoring Program §§ 103825–103855 · 7 sections
  - § 103825 The Legislature hereby finds and declares that birth defects, stillbirths, and miscarriages represent problems of public health importance about which too…
  - § 103830 The director shall maintain a system for the collection of information, necessary to accomplish the purposes of this chapter. The director shall require health…
  - § 103835 The birth defects monitoring program shall operate statewide. It is the intent of the Legislature that the adequacy of program resources shall be assessed…
  - § 103840 The director shall use the information collected pursuant to Section 103830 and information available from other reporting systems and health providers to…
  - § 103845 The director shall appoint an advisory committee to advise on the implementation of this chapter. Each of the disciplines of epidemiology, hospital…
  - § 103850 (a) All information collected pursuant to this chapter shall be confidential and shall be used solely for the purposes provided in this chapter. For purposes…
  - § 103855 The department may enter into a contract for the establishment and implementation of the birth defects monitoring program. The contract shall include…
2. CHAPTER 1.5. Parkinson’s Disease Registry §§ 103860–103865 · 2 sections
  - § 103860 (a) The department shall conduct a program of epidemiological assessments of the incidence of Parkinson’s disease. The program shall encompass all areas of the…
  - § 103865 (a) The director shall establish a statewide system for the collection of information determining the incidence of Parkinson’s disease. Commencing January 1,…
3. CHAPTER 1.6. Richard Paul Hemann Parkinson’s Disease Program §§ 103870–103870.1 · 2 sections
  - § 103870 (a) Beginning January 1, 2018, the department shall collect data on the incidence of Parkinson’s disease in California. The program shall be known, and may be…
  - § 103870.1 (a) Persons with a valid scientific interest who are engaged in demographic, epidemiological, or other similar studies related to health who meet…
4. CHAPTER 1.7. California Neurodegenerative Disease Registry Program §§ 103871–103871.2 · 3 sections
  - § 103871 (a) The department shall collect data on the incidence of neurodegenerative disease in California. (b) The department shall establish a system for the…
  - § 103871.1 (a) A person with a valid scientific interest who is engaged in demographic, epidemiological, or other similar studies related to health who meets…
  - § 103871.2 This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2028, and as of that date is repealed.
5. CHAPTER 2. Ken Maddy California Cancer Registry §§ 103875–103885 · 2 sections
  - § 103875 (a) The department shall conduct a program of epidemiological assessments of the incidence of cancer. The program shall encompass all areas of the state for…
  - § 103885 (a) The director shall establish a statewide system for the collection of information determining the incidence of cancer, using population-based regional…
6. CHAPTER 3. Disorders Characterized by Lapses of Consciousness § 103900 · 1 section
  - § 103900 (a) Every physician and surgeon shall report immediately to the local health officer in writing, the name, date of birth, and address of every patient at least…
7. CHAPTER 4. Reyes Syndrome § 103925 · 1 section
  - § 103925 (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) The cause and the cure of Reyes Syndrome are unknown, and the number of incidences of this disease is…