Florida Statutes Title XXIX Chapter 382 - Vital Statistics

• 382.001 - Short Title.
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Florida Vital Statistics Act.”History.—s. 1, ch. 87-387.
• 382.002 - Definitions.
  As used in this chapter, the term:(1) “Burial-transit permit” means a permit issued by the department that authorizes the final disposition of a dead body.(2) “Certificate of...
• 382.003 - Powers And Duties Of The Department.
  The department shall:(1) Establish an Office of Vital Statistics under the direction of a State Registrar for the uniform and efficient registration, compilation, storage, and preservation...
• 382.004 - Reproduction And Destruction Of Records.
  (1) The department is authorized to photograph, microphotograph, reproduce on film, or reproduce by electronic means vital records in such a manner that the data on...
• 382.005 - Duties Of Local Registrars.
  (1) Each local registrar is charged with the strict and thorough enforcement of the provisions of this chapter and rules adopted hereunder in his or her...
• 382.006 - Burial-transit Permit.
  (1) The funeral director who first assumes custody of a dead body or fetus must obtain a burial-transit permit before final disposition and within 5 days...
• 382.007 - Final Dispositions Prohibited Without Burial-transit Permit; Records Of Dead Bodies Disposed.
  A person in charge of any premises on which final dispositions are made shall not inter or permit the interment or other disposition of any...
• 382.008 - Death And Fetal Death Registration.
  (1) A certificate for each death and fetal death which occurs in this state shall be filed electronically on the department electronic death registration system or...
• 382.0085 - Stillbirth Registration.
  (1) For any stillborn child in this state, the department shall, within 60 days, issue a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth upon the request of...
• 382.009 - Recognition Of Brain Death Under Certain Circumstances.
  (1) For legal and medical purposes, where respiratory and circulatory functions are maintained by artificial means of support so as to preclude a determination that these...
• 382.011 - Medical Examiner Determination Of Cause Of Death.
  (1) In the case of any death or fetal death due to causes or conditions listed in s. 406.11, any death that occurred more than 12...
• 382.012 - Presumptive Death Certificate.
  (1) “Presumptive death” means a determination by a court of competent jurisdiction that:(a) A death of a resident of this state has occurred or is presumed to...
• 382.013 - Birth Registration.
  A certificate for each live birth that occurs in this state shall be filed within 5 days after such birth with the local registrar of...
• 382.0135 - Social Security Numbers; Enumeration-at-birth Program.
  The department shall make arrangements with the United States Social Security Administration for electronic notification of deaths that occur in the state and to participate...
• 382.015 - New Certificates Of Live Birth; Duty Of Clerks Of Court And Department.
  The clerk of the court in which any proceeding for adoption, annulment of an adoption, affirmation of parental status, or determination of paternity is to...
• 382.016 - Amendment Of Records.
  The department, upon receipt of the fee prescribed in s. 382.0255; documentary evidence, as specified by rule, of any misstatement, error, or omission occurring in...
• 382.017 - Foreign Births.
  (1) Upon request, the department shall prepare and register a certificate of foreign birth for an adoptee born in a foreign country who is not a...
• 382.019 - Delayed Registration; Administrative Procedures.
  (1) Registration after 1 year is a delayed registration, and the department may, upon receipt of an application and the fee required under s. 382.0255, and...
• 382.0195 - Court-issued Delayed Birth Certificate.
  (1) In addition to the provisions of s. 382.019, any state resident or person born in this state who does not have a birth certificate may,...
• 382.021 - Department To Receive Marriage Licenses.
  On or before the 5th day of each month, the county court judge or clerk of the circuit court shall transmit all original marriage licenses,...
• 382.022 - Marriage Application Fees.
  Upon the receipt of each application for the issuance of a marriage license, the county court judge or clerk of the circuit court shall, pursuant...
• 382.023 - Department To Receive Dissolution-of-marriage Records; Fees.
  Clerks of the circuit courts shall collect for their services at the time of the filing of a final judgment of dissolution of marriage a...
• 382.025 - Certified Copies Of Vital Records; Confidentiality; Research.
  (1) BIRTH RECORDS.—Except for birth records over 100 years old which are not under seal pursuant to court order, all birth records of this state shall...
• 382.0255 - Fees.
  (1) The department is entitled to fees, as follows:(a) Not less than $3 or more than $5 for the first calendar year of records searched or retrieved...
• 382.026 - Penalties.
  (1) Any person who willfully and knowingly makes any false statement in a certificate, record, or report required by this chapter, or in an application for...
• 382.355 - Birth Records Of Missing Children, Registrars’ Duties.
  The flagging of a missing child’s birth certificate record and the procedures to be used when requests for the record are made shall be governed...
• 382.356 - Protocol For Sharing Certain Birth Certificate Information.
  In order to facilitate the prosecution of offenses under s. 794.011, s. 794.05, s. 800.04, or s. 827.04(3), the Department of Health, the Department of...

Last modified: September 23, 2016