CHAPTER 2. Administration [102175. - 102395.]

Chapter 2 added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 4.

§§ 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…