Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3705 - Vital Statistics

• Section 3705.01 - Vital Statistics Definitions.
  As used in this chapter: (A) "Live birth" means the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of human conception that...
• Section 3705.02 - Statewide System Of Vital Statistics - Office Of Vital Statistics.
  A statewide system of registration of births, deaths, fetal deaths, and other vital statistics is hereby established, which shall consist of the office of...
• Section 3705.03 - State Registrar Is Head Of Office Of Vital Statistics - Powers And Duties.
  (A) The director of health shall designate the state registrar, who shall head the office of vital statistics and do all of the following:...
• Section 3705.04 - Registration Districts.
  The state shall be divided into registration districts. Each health district created by section 3709.01 of the Revised Code constitutes a primary registration district....
• Section 3705.05 - Local Registrars - Deputy Registrar - Records.
  In each primary registration district, the board of health of the health district, on the recommendation of the health commissioner, shall appoint the local...
• Section 3705.051 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 12-15-1988
• Section 3705.06 - Local Registrar To Supply Forms Of Certificates.
  The local registrar of vital statistics shall supply blank forms of certificates and instructions to such persons as require them, and shall require each...
• Section 3705.07 - Keeping And Transmitting Records By Local Registrar.
  (A) The local registrar of vital statistics shall number consecutively the birth, fetal death, and death certificates in three separate series, beginning with "number...
• Section 3705.071 - Copy Of Death Certificate Of Child To Be Sent To County Of Residence.
  On receipt of a death certificate of a person who was under eighteen years of age at death, the local registrar of vital statistics...
• Section 3705.08 - Director Shall Prescribe Forms.
  (A) The director of health, by rule, shall prescribe the form of records and certificates required by this chapter. Records and certificates shall include...
• Section 3705.09 - Filing And Registration Of Birth Certificate.
  (A) A birth certificate for each live birth in this state shall be filed in the registration district in which it occurs within ten...
• Section 3705.091 - Acknowledgment Of Paternity Affidavits.
  (A) If the natural mother and alleged father of a child sign an acknowledgment of paternity affidavit prepared pursuant to section 3111.31 of the...
• Section 3705.10 - Delayed Birth Certificate.
  Any birth certificate submitted for filing eleven or more days after the birth occurred constitutes a delayed birth registration. A delayed birth certificate may...
• Section 3705.11 - Report Of Foundling Child.
  Whoever finds a living infant of unknown parentage shall immediately report such finding to the local registrar of vital statistics of the registration district...
• Section 3705.12 - Issuance Of New Or Foreign Birth Record After Adoption - Access To Original Record, Adoption File.
  Upon receipt of the items sent by a probate court pursuant to section 3107.19 of the Revised Code concerning the adoption of a child...
• Section 3705.121 - Adoption Decreed In Out-of-state Court.
  When the adoption of a child whose birth occurred in this state is decreed by a court in another state and when the department...
• Section 3705.122 - Foreign Birth Record.
  (A) The department of health shall issue a foreign birth record as follows: (1) On receipt of the items sent by a probate court...
• Section 3705.123 - Records For Adoptions Decreed Before 1/1/1964.
  No original birth record of any person whose birth occurred in this state and whose adoption was decreed before January 1, 1964, no birth...
• Section 3705.124 - Application For New Birth Record.
  An adopted person whose birth occurred in this state, whose adoption was decreed before January 1, 1964, who did not have a new or...
• Section 3705.125 - Prima Facie Evidence.
  A new birth record or foreign birth record, and any certified or exact copy of the new birth record or foreign birth record, when...
• Section 3705.126 - Confidentiality.
  The department of health shall neither open an adoption file nor make its contents available except as follows: (A) The department shall inspect the...
• Section 3705.13 - Filing Court Order Of Change Of Name - New Birth Certificate.
  When a legal change of name of a person whose birth occurred in this state has been granted by a court, the office of...
• Section 3705.131 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 12-15-1988
• Section 3705.14 - Supplemental Report For Given Name.
  When a living child's birth is recorded without a given name, a supplemental report of such given name may be completed and presented within...
• Section 3705.15 - Registration Of Unrecorded Birth - Correction Of Birth Record.
  Whoever claims to have been born in this state, and whose registration of birth is not recorded, or has been lost or destroyed, or...
• Section 3705.16 - Statement Of Facts In Certificates - Death Certificate.
  (A) For purposes of this section notwithstanding section 3705.01 of the Revised Code, "fetal death" does not include death of the product of human...
• Section 3705.17 - Burial Permit Required - Records To Be Kept.
  The body of a person whose death occurs in this state shall not be interred, deposited in a vault or tomb, cremated, or otherwise...
• Section 3705.18 - Authorization For Final Disposition Of Body Transported Into State.
  When a death occurs outside the state and the body is transported into this state for burial or other disposition, the body must be...
• Section 3705.181 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 3705.13.
  Effective Date: 03-16-1989
• Section 3705.19 - Death Certificate To State Whether Deceased Served In The Armed Forces.
  (A) If the deceased served in the armed forces of the United States, the death certificate shall include a statement of the branch of...
• Section 3705.20 - Fetal Death Certificate.
  (A) The fetal death of the product of human conception of at least twenty weeks of gestation shall be registered on a fetal death...
• Section 3705.21 - Registration Of Marriages, Divorces, Dissolutions, Annulments And Corrections Of Marriage Certificate.
  All marriages taking place within the state, all divorces, dissolutions, and annulments of marriages decreed by a court of this state, and all corrections...
• Section 3705.22 - Birth Certificate To Be Amended To Correct Errors.
  Whenever it is alleged that the facts stated in any birth, fetal death, or death record filed in the department of health are not...
• Section 3705.23 - Copies Of Vital Records.
  (A) (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the director of health, the state registrar, or a local registrar, on receipt of a...
• Section 3705.231 - Cppy Of Birth Record.
  A local registrar shall allow an individual to photograph or otherwise copy a birth or death record. Added by 131st General Assembly File No....
• Section 3705.24 - Fees - Annual Certification By Director Of Health To County Treasurers.
  (A) (1) The director of health shall, in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code, adopt rules prescribing fees for the following items...
• Section 3705.241 - Fee For Copy Of Adoption File - Adoption Records Fund.
  Not later than ninety days after June 30, 1996, the director of health shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised...
• Section 3705.242 - Fee For Copy Of Birth Or Death Records - Divorce Decree Filing Fee.
  (A) (1) The director of health, a person authorized by the director, a local commissioner of health, or a local registrar of vital statistics...
• Section 3705.25 - Local Registrar, Deputy Registrar Or Sub-registrar To Be Removed For Failing To Discharge Official Duties.
  A local registrar of vital statistics, deputy registrar, or sub-registrar who fails to discharge official duties shall, on a recommendation of the health commissioner,...
• Section 3705.251 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 3705.19.
  Effective Date: 03-16-1989
• Section 3705.26 - Demand For Information By State Registrar.
  Any person having knowledge of the facts shall furnish such information as he may possess regarding any birth, fetal death, or death upon demand...
• Section 3705.27 - Matching Of Birth And Death Records To Protect Integrity Of Vital Records.
  The director of health may match birth records and death records in accordance with written standards which he shall promulgate in order to protect...
• Section 3705.28 - Prior Records Valid.
  This chapter applies to all birth, fetal death, or death certificates and records, and reports of marriage, divorce, dissolution of marriage, or annulment of...
• Section 3705.29 - Prohibited Acts.
  (A) No person shall do any of the following: (1) Purposely make any false statement in a certificate, record, or report required by this...
• Section 3705.30 - Statewide Birth Defects Information System.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Freestanding birthing center" has the same meaning as in section 3702.141 of the Revised Code. (2) "Hospital"...
• Section 3705.31 - Purposes Of System.
  If implemented under section 3705.30 of the Revised Code, the birth defects information system may be used for all of the following purposes: (A)...
• Section 3705.32 - Records Are Confidential - Exceptions.
  (A) Except as provided in this section, records received and information assembled by the birth defects information system pursuant to section 3705.30 of the...
• Section 3705.33 - Parent Or Legal Guardian May Request Information Concerning Child To Be Removed From System.
  As used in this section, "local health department" means a health department operated by the board of health of a city or general health...
• Section 3705.34 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-05-2004
• Section 3705.35 - Rules.
  Not later than one hundred eighty days after the effective date of this section, the director of health shall, in consultation with the council...
• Section 3705.36 - Annual Report Regarding System.
  Three years after the date a birth defects information system is implemented pursuant to section 3705.30 of the Revised Code, and annually thereafter, the...
• Section 3705.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates division (A) , (B), or (H) of section 3705.29 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than ten thousand...

Last modified: October 10, 2016