144.43 VITAL RECORDS CLOSED TO INSPECTION --
EXCEPTIONS.
1. To protect the integrity of vital statistics records, to
ensure their proper use, and to ensure the efficient and proper
administration of the vital statistics system kept by the state
registrar, access to vital statistics records kept by the state
registrar shall be limited to the state registrar and the state
registrar's employees, and then only for administrative purposes.
2. a. It shall be unlawful for the state registrar to permit
inspection of, or to disclose information contained in vital
statistics records, or to copy or permit to be copied all or part of
any such record except as authorized by regulation.
b. However, the following vital statistics records may be
inspected and copied as of right under chapter 22 when they are in
the custody of a county registrar or when they are in the custody of
the state archivist and are at least seventy-five years old:
(1) A record of birth.
(2) A record of marriage.
(3) A record of divorce, dissolution of marriage, or annulment of
marriage.
(4) A record of death if that death was not a fetal death.
3. A public record shall not be withheld from the public because
it is combined with data processing software. The state registrar
shall not implement any electronic data processing system for the
storage, manipulation, or retrieval of vital records that would
impair a county registrar's ability to permit the examination of a
public record and the copying of a public record, as established by
rule. If it is necessary to separate a public record from data
processing software in order to permit the examination of the public
record, the county registrar shall periodically generate a written
log available for public inspection which contains the public record.
144.43 VITAL RECORDS CLOSED TO INSPECTION --
EXCEPTIONS.
1. To protect the integrity of vital statistics records, to
ensure their proper use, and to ensure the efficient and proper
administration of the vital statistics system kept by the state
registrar, access to vital statistics records kept by the state
registrar shall be limited to the state registrar and the state
registrar's employees, and then only for administrative purposes.
2. a. It shall be unlawful for the state registrar to permit
inspection of, or to disclose information contained in vital
statistics records, or to copy or permit to be copied all or part of
any such record except as authorized by regulation.
b. However, the following vital statistics records may be
inspected and copied as of right under chapter 22 when they are in
the custody of a county registrar or when they are in the custody of
the state archivist and are at least seventy-five years old:
(1) A record of birth.
(2) A record of marriage.
(3) A record of divorce, dissolution of marriage, or annulment of
marriage.
(4) A record of death if that death was not a fetal death.
3. A public record shall not be withheld from the public because
it is combined with data processing software. The state registrar
shall not implement any electronic data processing system for the
storage, manipulation, or retrieval of vital records that would
impair a county registrar's ability to permit the examination of a
public record and the copying of a public record, as established by
rule. If it is necessary to separate a public record from data
processing software in order to permit the examination of the public
record, the county registrar shall periodically generate a written
log available for public inspection which contains the public record.
144.43 VITAL RECORDS CLOSED TO INSPECTION --
EXCEPTIONS.
1. To protect the integrity of vital statistics records, to
ensure their proper use, and to ensure the efficient and proper
administration of the vital statistics system kept by the state
registrar, access to vital statistics records kept by the state
registrar shall be limited to the state registrar and the state
registrar's employees, and then only for administrative purposes.
2. a. It shall be unlawful for the state registrar to permit
inspection of, or to disclose information contained in vital
statistics records, or to copy or permit to be copied all or part of
any such record except as authorized by regulation.
b. However, the following vital statistics records may be
inspected and copied as of right under chapter 22 when they are in
the custody of a county registrar or when they are in the custody of
the state archivist and are at least seventy-five years old:
(1) A record of birth.
(2) A record of marriage.
(3) A record of divorce, dissolution of marriage, or annulment of
marriage.
(4) A record of death if that death was not a fetal death.
3. A public record shall not be withheld from the public because
it is combined with data processing software. The state registrar
shall not implement any electronic data processing system for the
storage, manipulation, or retrieval of vital records that would
impair a county registrar's ability to permit the examination of a
public record and the copying of a public record, as established by
rule. If it is necessary to separate a public record from data
processing software in order to permit the examination of the public
record, the county registrar shall periodically generate a written
log available for public inspection which contains the public record.
