2005 Vermont Code - § 1715. — Vital records search

§ 1715. Vital records search

(a) Upon payment of a $9.50 fee, the commissioner of health or the commissioner of buildings and general services shall provide certified copies of vital records or shall ascertain and certify what the vital records available to the commissioners show, except that the commissioners shall not copy the word "illegitimate" from any birth certificate furnished. The fee for the search of the vital records is $3.00 which is credited toward the fee for the first certified copy based upon the search.

(b) Fees collected under this section shall be credited to special funds established and managed pursuant to chapter 7, subchapter 5 of this title, and shall be available to the charging departments to offset the costs of providing those services. (Added 1967, No. 278 (Adj. Sess.), § 26; amended 1975, No. 8, § 2; 1979, No. 56, § 11; No. 142 (Adj. Sess.), § 20; 1985, No. 224 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; 1995, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 4(c)(2), eff. May 6, 1996; 1997, No. 59, § 8, eff. June 30, 1997; 2001, No. 143 (Adj. Sess.), § 63, eff. June 21, 2002; 2003, No. 163 (Adj. Sess.), § 9a.)