2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 41 - PUBLIC HEALTH
Chapter 57 - Vital Statistics.
41-57-11 - Payment for birth and death certificates.

§ 41-57-11. Payment for birth and death certificates.
 

(1)  Each local registrar shall be paid the sum of One Dollar ($1.00) for each birth and each death certificate properly made out, and in the manner and on the form required by the State Board of Health. Such sum shall be paid by the board of supervisors of the county in which the births and deaths occurred, upon certification made monthly to the board of supervisors by the state registrar. 
 

However, any local registrar shall receive only Fifty Cents (50›) for each birth and each death certificate sent in to the Bureau of Vital Statistics improperly completed or sent in at a later time than that fixed by the regulations of the State Board of Health. 

(2)  In addition to any fees established and collected by the State Board of Health for the issuance of original and copies of birth certificates, there shall be charged a fee of One Dollar ($1.00) for each original and each copy of a birth certificate. This additional fee shall be deposited into the Mississippi Children's Trust Fund created by Section 93-21-305 and shall be used only as set forth in Sections 93-21-301 through 93-21-311. This additional fee shall not be added to birth certificates furnished free as provided in Sections 35-3-9 and 41-57-25. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hemingway's 1917, § 4873; 1930, § 4909; 1942, § 7065; Laws,  1912, ch. 149; Laws, 1928, ch. 44; Laws, 1936, ch. 209; Laws, 1946, ch. 473, § 1; Laws, 1952, ch. 339; Laws, 1954, Ex. Sess. ch. 14, §§ 1, 2; Laws, 1958, ch. 357; Laws, 1966, ch. 457, § 1; Laws, 1981, ch. 425, § 1; Laws, 1989, ch. 509, § 7, eff from and after July 1, 1989.