2013 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 23 - Health and Safety
Chapter 23-3 - Vital Records
Section 23-3-24.1 - Native Americans – Certified copies of birth records.


RI Gen L § 23-3-24.1 (2013) What's This?

§ 23-3-24.1 Native Americans – Certified copies of birth records. – Any American Indian or Native American whose certified copy of a birth record contains a racial designation that is incorrect may, without paying a fee, obtain one certified copy of his or her birth record from which the incorrect racial designation has been amended. The person requesting the birth record shall provide satisfactory proof from a tribal authority.

History of Section.
(P.L. 1998, ch. 309, § 1.)

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