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2018 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 26 - HEALTH AND VITAL STATISTICS
Chapter 8
- Section 26:8-1 - Definitions.
- Section 26:8-2 - Registration district
- Section 26:8-3 - Consolidation of districts
- Section 26:8-4 - Duty to furnish information relative to birth, death, marriage, civil union, domestic partnership.
- Section 26:8-5 - Institutional records
- Section 26:8-6 - Registration of midwives, funeral directors.
- Section 26:8-7 - Registration of vital records by state department
- Section 26:8-8 - Vital record facilities
- Section 26:8-9 - State registrar
- Section 26:8-11 - Local registrar, appointment; county clerk, authorized to act as local registrar, certain circumstances.
- Section 26:8-12 - Approval of appointment by state department
- Section 26:8-13 - Term of office
- Section 26:8-14 - Appointment of successors
- Section 26:8-15 - Vacancy
- Section 26:8-16 - Persons eligible as local registrars
- Section 26:8-17 - Local registrar; appointment of deputy, alternate deputy registrar.
- Section 26:8-18 - Subregistrar; appointment
- Section 26:8-19 - Removal from office
- Section 26:8-20 - Nonapplicability
- Section 26:8-21 - Applicability of chapter
- Section 26:8-21.1 - Rules, regulations.
- Section 26:8-22 - Oath of office
- Section 26:8-23 - Duty of the department; examination of records.
- Section 26:8-24 - Duties, responsibilities of State registrar.
- Section 26:8-24.1 - New Jersey Electronic Death Registration System (NJ-EDRS); implementation.
- Section 26:8-24.2 - "New Jersey Electronic Death Registration Support Fund."
- Section 26:8-24.3 - Means of accessing NJ-EDRS; requirements.
- Section 26:8-25 - Duties, responsibilities of local registrar.
- Section 26:8-25.1 - Suspension of authority to participate in NJ-EDRS.
- Section 26:8-26 - Duty of subregistrar.
- Section 26:8-27 - Inquiries to applicants for marriage or civil union license.
- Section 26:8-28 - Birth certificate required; information furnished.
- Section 26:8-28.1 - Contents of certificate of parentage.
- Section 26:8-29 - Contents of birth certificate
- Section 26:8-30 - Execution, return of certificate of birth; availability of certificate of parentage; challenge to acknowledgment of paternity.
- Section 26:8-31 - Certificate of birth or parentage when no physician or midwife in attendance
- Section 26:8-32 - Completion of details by local registrar
- Section 26:8-33 - Report by father or mother
- Section 26:8-34 - Supplemental return of name of child
- Section 26:8-35 - Incomplete certificate of birth
- Section 26:8-36 - Interrogation of informant
- Section 26:8-37 - Stillborn child to be registered as fetal death; birth certificate options.
- Section 26:8-38 - Recording unrecorded births; penalty for false certificate
- Section 26:8-39 - Birth certificate not to disclose illegitimacy; exceptions
- Section 26:8-40 - Change of surname of child born out of wedlock; amendment of original birth record
- Section 26:8-40.1 - Adopted children, birth certificates; procedure.
- Section 26:8-40.2 - Parentage unknown; presumption of birth within state
- Section 26:8-40.4 - Application; determination of probable date of birth; presumption
- Section 26:8-40.5 - Persons not entitled to order
- Section 26:8-40.6 - Record of birth; effect as evidence
- Section 26:8-40.7 - "Employer" defined
- Section 26:8-40.8 - Honorable discharge from armed services; acceptance by employer in lieu of birth certificate
- Section 26:8-40.9 - Violation as disorderly conduct
- Section 26:8-40.10 - Foreign births and adoptions
- Section 26:8-40.11 - Change of surname of child born out of wedlock; amendment of original birth record
- Section 26:8-40.12 - Sex reassignment surgery; amendment of birth certificate
- Section 26:8-40.20 - Legislative findings and declarations.
- Section 26:8-40.21 - Birth defects, severe neonatal jaundice registry.
- Section 26:8-40.22 - Confidential reports of abortions of fetus with or infant affected by birth defect or severe neonatal jaundice.
- Section 26:8-40.23 - Confidentiality of reports
- Section 26:8-40.24 - Nonliability for divulging confidential information
- Section 26:8-40.25 - Act not to be construed to compel submission to medical examination or to supervision by department of health
- Section 26:8-40.26 - Rules and regulations
- Section 26:8-40.27 - Findings, declarations relative to stillbirths.
- Section 26:8-40.28 - Development of comprehensive policies, procedures.
- Section 26:8-40.29 - Fetal death evaluation protocol.
- Section 26:8-40.30 - Establishment, maintenance of data base.
- Section 26:8-40.31 - Evaluation of data, report to Governor, Legislature.
- Section 26:8-40.32 - Rules, regulations.
- Section 26:8-40.33 - Provision of uncertified long-form copy of adopted person's original certificate of birth.
- Section 26:8-40.34 - Submission of document of contact preference by birth parent.
- Section 26:8-40.35 - Certain cases exempt.
- Section 26:8-40.36 - Rules, regulations.
- Section 26:8-40.37 - Additional regulations.
- Section 26:8-41 - Transmission of marriage and civil union licenses and certificates, power of attorney.
- Section 26:8-42 - License issued in another registration district, transmission of information on form provided.
- Section 26:8-43 - Transmission of marriage and civil union certificates and licenses to State registrar.
- Section 26:8-44 - Indexing, tabulation and preservation of records by State registrar.
- Section 26:8-45 - Cancellation of records of marriages and civil unions declared void.
- Section 26:8-46 - Indorsement of record upon cancellation.
- Section 26:8-47 - Preparation of forms for marriage and civil union licenses, certificates.
- Section 26:8-48 - Amendments to certificate, recording, authentication.
- Section 26:8-49 - Corrections to birth and fetal death certificates.
- Section 26:8-50 - Correcting marriage or civil union licenses.
- Section 26:8-51 - Corrections to marriage, civil union, domestic partnership certificates.
- Section 26:8-52 - Correcting death certificates, procedure.
- Section 26:8-53 - Acceptance of corrections
- Section 26:8-54 - Certified copies of corrected certificates
- Section 26:8-55 - Submitting false certificate; penalty.
- Section 26:8-56 - Fee for registering birth or death.
- Section 26:8-57 - Fee for reporting no registration of birth or death
- Section 26:8-59 - Payment of local registrar for certificates or reports
- Section 26:8-59.1 - Persons authorized to obtain certification, certified copy of death certificate; accounting for fees.
- Section 26:8-60 - Fee for transmitting certificate.
- Section 26:8-61 - Fee for cancellation of marriage or civil union record.
- Section 26:8-62 - Certification, certified copy of records, search fee; uniform forms for vital records.
- Section 26:8-63 - Free certified copies.
- Section 26:8-64 - Search of files, records, fee.
- Section 26:8-65 - Account of fees received
- Section 26:8-66 - Investigation of violation.
- Section 26:8-67 - Duty of county prosecutor.
- Section 26:8-68 - Duty of attorney general; proceedings by local registrar.
- Section 26:8-69 - Penalties; recovery.
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