Georgia Code, Title 31, Chapter 10 - Vital Records

• § 31-10-1 - Definitions
  As used in this chapter, the term: (1) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of public health. (2) "Dead body" means a human body or such...
• § 31-10-2 - Maintenance and Operation of Vital Records Registration System
  There is hereby established within the department the State Office of Vital Records which shall maintain and operate the state's official vital records registration...
• § 31-10-3 - Rules and Regulations
  The department is authorized to adopt, amend, and repeal rules and regulations for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter.
• § 31-10-4 - Appointment of State Registrar of Vital Records
  The commissioner shall appoint the state registrar of vital records, hereinafter referred to as "state registrar," subject to the rules and regulations of the...
• § 31-10-5 - Duties and Powers of State Registrar; Delegation of Functions and Duties
  (a) The state registrar shall: (1) Administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter and the rules and regulations issued under this chapter and...
• § 31-10-6 - Local Registrars, Local Custodians, Special Abstracting Agents, and Deputies; Appointment; Duties
  (a) The state registrar may appoint a local registrar and local custodian for each county and a special abstracting agent as necessary. Appointees must...
• § 31-10-7 - Form of Certificates and Reports; Date Received for Registration Required; Filing or Registration of Information by Photographic, Electronic, or Other Means
  (a) In order to promote and maintain nation-wide uniformity in the system of vital records, the forms of certificates and reports required by this...
• § 31-10-8 - Certification to County Treasurers of Birth and Death Certificates and Spontaneous Fetal Death Reports Filed; Fees
  (a) The local registrar shall certify to the treasurer of the county each month the number of birth and death certificates and spontaneous fetal...
• § 31-10-9 - Registration of Births
  (a) A certificate of birth for each live birth which occurs in this state shall be filed with the State Office of Vital Records...
• § 31-10-9.1 - Social Security Account Information of Parents
  (a) Social security account information of the mother and father, if paternity is acknowledged by the father, of a child born within this state...
• § 31-10-10 - Registration of Live Born Infants of Unknown Parentage
  (a) Whoever assumes the custody of a live born infant of unknown parentage shall report on a form and in a manner prescribed by...
• § 31-10-11 - Registration of Delayed Certificate of Birth
  (a) When a certificate of birth of a person born in this state has not been filed before that person's first birthday, a delayed...
• § 31-10-12 - Judicial Procedure to Establish Facts of Birth
  (a) If a delayed certificate of birth is rejected under the provisions of Code Section 31-10-11, a petition signed and sworn to by the...
• § 31-10-13 - Certificates of Adoption
  (a) For each adoption decreed by a court of competent jurisdiction in this state, the court shall require the preparation of a report of...
• § 31-10-13.1 - Certified Copies of Orders and Registration of Legitimations and Paternity Orders
  (a) For each legitimation, annulment of legitimation, and amendment of an order of legitimation decreed by a court of competent jurisdiction in this state,...
• § 31-10-13.2 - Provision of Copies of Legitimation and Paternity Orders to State Registrar
  (a) In each case in which an order declaring paternity is entered by a court of competent jurisdiction in this state or by the...
• § 31-10-14 - Issuance of New Certificate of Birth Following Adoption and Legitimation or Paternity Determination
  (a) The state registrar shall establish a new certificate of birth for a person born in this state when the state registrar receives the...
• § 31-10-15 - Death Certificate; Filing; Medical Certification; Forwarding Death Certificate to Decedent's County of Residence; Purging Voter Registration List
  (a) A certificate of death for each death which occurs in this state shall be filed with the local registrar of the county in...
• § 31-10-16 - Criteria for Determining Death; Immunity From Liability
  (a) A person may be pronounced dead by a qualified physician, by a registered professional nurse authorized to make a pronouncement of death under...
• § 31-10-17 - State Registration of Death Certificates; Certified Copies; Certificates of Record
  (a) When a death certificate is filed with a local registrar, it shall be transmitted to the State Office of Vital Records for state...
• § 31-10-18 - Registration of Spontaneous Fetal Deaths
  (a) A report of spontaneous fetal death for each spontaneous fetal death which occurs in this state shall be filed with the local registrar...
• § 31-10-19 - Reporting of Induced Termination of Pregnancy
  Each induced termination of pregnancy which occurs in this state, regardless of the length of gestation or weight, shall be reported directly to the...
• § 31-10-20 - Permits for Disposition, Disinterment, and Reinterment
  (a) The funeral director or person acting as such or other person who first assumes custody of a dead body or fetus shall obtain...
• § 31-10-21 - Record of Marriage Licenses
  (a) A record of each marriage performed in this state shall be filed with the department and shall be registered if it has been...
• § 31-10-22 - Record of Divorces, Dissolutions, and Annulments
  (a) A record of each divorce, dissolution of marriage, or annulment granted by any court of competent jurisdiction in this state shall be filed...
• § 31-10-23 - Amendment of Certificates or Reports
  (a) Unless otherwise specified by law, a certificate or report registered under this chapter may be amended in accordance with this chapter and regulations...
• § 31-10-24 - Preservation or Disposition of Vital Records; Certified Reproductions; Preserved Originals and Authorized Reproductions As Property of Department
  (a) The department is responsible for the preservation or disposition of all vital records at state or county offices. To preserve vital records, the...
• § 31-10-25 - Disclosure of Information Contained in Vital Records; Transfer of Records to State Archives
  (a) To protect the integrity of vital records, to ensure their proper use, and to ensure the efficient and proper administration of the system...
• § 31-10-26 - Certified Copies of Vital Records; Issuance; Use for Statistical Purposes; Transmittal of Records Out of State; Use for Commercial or Speculative Purposes
  (a) In accordance with Code Section 31-10-25 and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto: (1) The state registrar or local custodian of vital records appointed...
• § 31-10-27 - Fees for Copies or Services
  (a) The department shall prescribe uniform fees to be paid to the State Office of Vital Records, local registrars, and local custodians for certified...
• § 31-10-28 - Institutions to Keep Vital Records
  (a) Every person in charge of an institution shall keep a record of personal data concerning each person admitted or confined to such institution....
• § 31-10-29 - Privileged Nature of Disclosures; Notification of Local Registrar of Institutional Deaths and Fetal Deaths; Notification of Board of Voting Registrars of Adult Deaths
  (a) Any person having knowledge or facts concerning any birth, death, spontaneous fetal death, marriage, induced termination of pregnancy, divorce, dissolution of marriage, or...
• § 31-10-30 - Posting Facts of Death to Birth Certificates
  (a) To protect the integrity of vital records and to prevent the fraudulent use of birth certificates of deceased persons, the state registrar is...
• § 31-10-31 - Penalties
  (a) A fine of not more than $10,000.00 or imprisonment of not more than five years, or both, shall be imposed on: (1) Any...
• § 31-10-32 - Extension of Periods for Filing of Certificates or Reports
  The department may, by regulation and upon such conditions as it may prescribe to assure compliance with the purposes of this chapter, provide for...
• § 31-10-33 - Procedure for Stillbirth
  (a) For any stillborn child in this state, the State Office of Vital Records shall, within 60 days of a request by a parent...

Last modified: October 14, 2016