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2014 West Virginia Code
CHAPTER 16. PUBLIC HEALTH
ARTICLE 5. VITAL STATISTICS.
- §16-5-1. Definitions.
- §16-5-2. Establishment of section of vital statistics in Bureau for Public Health.
- §16-5-3. Department of Health and Human Resources to propose legislative rules.
- §16-5-4. Appointment of State Registrar of Vital Statistics.
- §16-5-5. Powers and duties of State Registrar.
- §16-5-6. Registration districts.
- §16-5-7. Appointment and removal of local registrars and deputy local registrars.
- §16-5-8. Duties of local registrars and deputy local registrars.
- §16-5-9. Content of certificates and reports.
- §16-5-10. Birth registration acknowledgment and rescission of paternity.
- §16-5-11. Registration of infants and minors born with specified birth defects.
- §16-5-12. Notation on birth records of missing children.
- §16-5-12a.
- §16-5-12b.
- §16-5-13. Registration of infants of unknown parentage.
- §16-5-14. Delayed registration of births.
- §16-5-15. Judicial procedure to establish facts of birth.
- §16-5-16. Certificate of adoption.
- §16-5-17. Court reports of determination of paternity.
- §16-5-18. Certificates of birth following adoption, legitimation, paternity acknowledgment and court determination of paternity.
- §16-5-18a.
- §16-5-18b.
- §16-5-19. Death registration.
- §16-5-20. Delayed registration of death.
- §16-5-21. Reports of fetal death.
- §16-5-22. Reports of induced termination of pregnancy.
- §16-5-23. Authorization for disposition and disinterment and reinterment permits.
- §16-5-24. Extension of time for filing certificates, reports and authorizations.
- §16-5-25. Correction and amendment of vital records.
- §16-5-26. Reproduction and preservation of records.
- §16-5-27. Disclosure of information from vital records or vital reports.
- §16-5-28. Copies from the system of vital statistics.
- §16-5-29. Fees for copies and searches.
- §16-5-30. Persons required to keep records.
- §16-5-31. Duty to furnish information relative to vital events.
- §16-5-32. Matching of birth and death certificates.
- §16-5-33. Limitation on use of social security numbers.
- §16-5-34. Uniform system of registration of marriage, divorce and annulment of marriage.
- §16-5-35. Registration of marriages.
- §16-5-36. Registration of divorces and annulments of marriages.
- §16-5-37. Applicability to previously received certificates and reports.
- §16-5-38. Penalties.
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