Chapter 440 - Vital Statistics
- CERTIFICATES AS EVIDENCE; DELAYED OR ALTERED CERTIFICATES
- CERTIFIED COPIES OF RECORDS; FEES OF STATE AND LOCALREGISTRARS
- 440.650 - Issuance of certified copy of certificate; limitation.
- 440.660 - Certified copy of record of birth or death is prima facie evidence.
- 440.670 - Abstracted birth certificate: Issuance; contents; form; use as evidence.
- 440.690 - Receipt of fees: Accounting; deposit; refunding overpayments.
- 440.700 - Fees for services and copies of certificates; certificates available without fee.
- 440.710 - Salary or fee of deputy registrar; local health officer prohibited from charging fee for issuance of burial or removal permit.
- 440.715 - Fee for support of office of county coroner.
- GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 440.010 - “Board” defined.
- 440.020 - “Dead body” defined.
- 440.025 - “Human remains” and “remains” defined.
- 440.030 - “Live birth” defined.
- 440.040 - “Person in charge of interment” defined.
- 440.050 - “Physician” defined.
- 440.060 - “State Registrar” defined.
- 440.070 - “Stillbirth” defined.
- 440.080 - “Vital statistics” defined.
- 440.085 - Chapter inapplicable to remains of native Indian.
- 440.090 - Requisites of certificates.
- LOCAL ADMINISTRATION
- 440.190 - County health officer as registrar.
- 440.200 - Furnishing blank certificates.
- 440.210 - Certificates of birth and death: Examination by local health officer.
- 440.220 - Certificates of birth and death: Enforcement of requirements by local health officer.
- 440.230 - Certificates of birth and death: Numbering; attestation of date of filing by local health officer.
- 440.240 - Certificates of birth and death: Preservation of copies by local health officer.
- 440.250 - Certificates of birth and death: Filing by deputy county health officer; filing of list of deceased persons with public administrator.
- RECORDS OF DIVORCE AND ANNULMENT OF MARRIAGE
- RECORDS OF MARRIAGE
- RECORDS REGARDING DEATH AND DISPOSITION OF REMAINS
- 440.350 - Form and contents of certificate of death or stillbirth.
- 440.360 - Authentication of personal and statistical information concerning certificate.
- 440.370 - Signature required on statement of facts concerning disposition of body.
- 440.380 - Medical certificate of death: Signature; contents.
- 440.390 - Certificate of stillbirth.
- 440.400 - Use of indefinite or unsatisfactory terms.
- 440.410 - Manner of defining cause of death.
- 440.415 - Pronouncement of death by registered nurse or physician assistant: Conditions; release of body; regulations.
- 440.420 - Duties of funeral director, health officer and coroner when death occurs without medical attendance.
- 440.430 - Duties of coroner.
- 440.433 - Notice to parents or guardian of autopsy upon body of minor; placement of internal organs.
- 440.435 - Death caused by sudden infant death syndrome: Ordinance may authorize postmortem examination; duties of coroner.
- 440.437 - Death caused by sudden infant death syndrome: Report by State Registrar.
- 440.440 - Duties of funeral director and sheriff upon death of unknown person.
- 440.450 - Prerequisites to disposal of body.
- 440.460 - Personal and statistical information.
- 440.470 - Presentation of certificate.
- 440.480 - Statement as to disposition of body.
- 440.490 - Presentation of completed certificate of death to local registrar.
- 440.495 - Notification of county clerk or registrar of voters.
- 440.500 - Burial and removal permits: Issuance; contents; death from infectious, contagious or communicable disease.
- 440.510 - Contents of burial permit.
- 440.520 - Disposition of burial or removal permit.
- 440.530 - Burial permit to accompany body.
- 440.540 - Necessity for permit to inter more than 72 hours after death; removal of body to another registration district.
- 440.550 - Body transported from another state.
- 440.560 - Interment without burial permit prohibited.
- 440.570 - Validity of burial permit in another district.
- 440.580 - Signature, endorsement and return of permit.
- 440.590 - Records of interments.
- REGISTRATION OF BIRTH
- 440.270 - Immediate registration required.
- 440.280 - Duty of registering birth: Persons required to file; time for filing; required information.
- 440.283 - Voluntary acknowledgment of paternity: Board to develop and distribute declarations to be signed; certain entities to provide services and notice concerning effect of declaration.
- 440.287 - Rescission of declaration for voluntary acknowledgment of paternity.
- 440.290 - Certificate of birth: Form and contents.
- 440.300 - Certificate of birth: Supplemental report of name required for unnamed child.
- 440.303 - Certificate of birth: Replacement of certificate written in foreign language; application for and preparation of new certificate written in English.
- 440.305 - Certificate of birth: State Registrar to change name on certificate upon request of certain persons.
- 440.310 - Certified reports and other documents pertaining to adoption: Duties of State Registrar; opening of sealed documents upon order of court.
- 440.315 - Certificate of birth: Removal of notation of illegitimacy; application for and issuance of new certificate.
- 440.325 - Certificate of birth: Issuance of new certificate upon establishment of paternity; availability of record on court order; availability of records to Division of Welfare and Supportive Servic
- 440.327 - Certificate of birth: Requests for certificates of certain missing children.
- 440.330 - Registration of foundling; contents of report.
- 440.340 - Registration of stillborn children.
- STATE ADMINISTRATION
- 440.110 - State Registrar of Vital Statistics.
- 440.120 - Regulations of State Board of Health concerning registration; enforcement by State Registrar.
- 440.130 - Preparation and distribution of forms and blanks; charge for blank certificate.
- 440.135 - Form for reporting divorce or annulment of marriage: Preparation; contents; distribution.
- 440.140 - Preparation and issuance of instructions; use of other forms and blanks prohibited.
- 440.150 - Examination and supplementation of certificates.
- 440.160 - Preservation and indexing of certificates.
- 440.165 - Reproduction of original records and files.
- 440.170 - Records open to inspection; use of data restricted.
- 440.175 - tatistical data; limitation on preparation or issuance of certain documents; charging fees to homeless persons prohibited; remittance required for issuing copies.
- UNLAWFUL ACTS; PENALTIES
- 440.720 - Neglect or refusal of physician to execute medical certificate of death.
- 440.730 - False certification of cause of death by physician.
- 440.735 - Signature of uncompleted certificate of death.
- 440.740 - Failure or refusal to file certificate of birth with local health officer.
- 440.750 - Interment, removal or other disposition of dead body without permit.
- 440.760 - Alteration of certificate of birth or death.
- 440.765 - Use or possession of certificate of birth of another person.
- 440.770 - Furnishing false information for certificate of birth or death.
- 440.773 - Sale for profit of copy or abstract of certificate of marriage.
- 440.775 - Injunction against sale for profit of copy of certificate of marriage.