2025 Delaware Code
Title 16 - Health and Safety
Chapter 31. REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, DIVORCES, ANNULMENTS AND ADOPTIONS
Subchapter I. General Provisions
§ 3102. Supervision and enforcement of registrations.

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16 DE Code § 3102 (2025)
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§ 3102. Supervision and enforcement of registrations.

(a) The Department has charge of the registration of births, deaths, marriages, divorces and fetal deaths and shall prepare the necessary methods, forms and blanks for obtaining and preserving such records and insuring the faithful registration of the same throughout this State and in the central Office of Vital Statistics.

(b) The Department is charged with the uniform and thorough enforcement of this chapter throughout the State and shall from time to time promulgate any additional forms and regulations that are necessary for this purpose.

27 Del. Laws, c. 84, § 1;  27 Del. Laws, c. 85, § 1;  Code 1915, § 797;  33 Del. Laws, c. 57, § 4;  34 Del. Laws, c. 69, § 1;  Code 1935, § 780;  16 Del. C. 1953, § 3101;  68 Del. Laws, c. 274, § 1;  70 Del. Laws, c. 149, § 138; 
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