2011 Vermont Code
Title 18 Health
Chapter 103 BIRTH RECORDS
§ 5073 Amendment of minor errors on birth certificate

§ 5073. Amendment of minor errors on birth certificate

(a) Within six months after the date of birth, amendment of obvious errors, transpositions of letters in words of common knowledge, or omissions, may be made by the town clerk either upon his or her own observation or upon request of a parent, the hospital, the certifying attendant, or the supervisor of vital records registration. The amended certificate shall be free of any evidence of such correction except that the clerk shall make a notation as to the source of the information, together with his or her name and the date the change was made, on the margin of the certificate. This notation shall not be included on any certified copy of the certificate issued except as specified in subsection (b) of this section. The certificate shall not be marked "Amended."

(b) The town clerk shall send a certified copy of any certificate amended under subsection (a) of this section to the commissioner and also to the clerk of any town to whom a copy of the original record was sent under the provisions of section 5009 of this title, and shall enclose with that copy, but not endorsed thereon, a notation identifying the copy to be replaced. The copy shall show the notations specified in subsection (a) of this section. The commissioner shall file this return or copy by attaching the same to the original return or copy. (Amended 1979, No. 56, { 8; 1979, No. 142 (Adj. Sess.), { 9; 1985, No. 33, { 1.)