2010 Tennessee Code
Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection
Chapter 3 - Vital Records
Part 1 - Definitions and Administration
68-3-103 - Establishment of office of vital records Rules and regulations Enforcement Registration districts Seal.
68-3-103. Establishment of office of vital records Rules and regulations Enforcement Registration districts Seal.
The department shall:
(1) Establish an office of vital records with suitable offices, which shall be properly equipped with fireproof vault and filing cases for the preservation of all official records made and received under this chapter or under the regulations of the department;
(2) Make and amend, with the approval of the public health council, regulations necessary for the creation and efficient performance of an adequate system of vital records, and give instructions and prescribe forms for collecting, transcribing, compiling and preserving vital records;
(3) Enforce this chapter and the regulations made pursuant to this chapter;
(4) Provide a seal of office; and
(5) Divide the state into vital records registration districts. The department may from time to time, as conditions justify, change their boundaries. The subdivisions of the state on July 1, 1977, shall be continued until changed by the department.
[Acts 1977, ch. 128, § 3; T.C.A., § 53-403.]
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