Oregon Statutes - Chapter 432 - Vital Statistics

432.005 Definitions.
As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) �Dead body� means a human body or such parts of such human body from...
432.010 Center for Health Statistics; standards.
(1) The Department of Human Services shall establish the Center for Health Statistics, which shall install, maintain and operate the system of vital statistics throughout...
432.015 Rules.
The State Registrar of the Center for Health Statistics, under the supervision of the Director of Human Services, in compliance with ORS chapter 183, shall...
432.020 State registrar; appointment.
The Director of Human Services shall appoint the State Registrar of the Center for Health Statistics who shall qualify in accordance with standards of education...
432.025 Assistant state registrars.
The State Registrar of the Center for Health Statistics, with the approval of the Director of Human Services, may appoint, when necessary, assistant state registrars...
432.030 Duties of state registrar.
(1) The State Registrar of the Center for Health Statistics shall: (a) Under the supervision of the Director of Human Services, have charge of the...
432.035 County registrars.
The State Registrar of the Center for Health Statistics shall designate for each county a county registrar. In consultation with the state registrar, the county...
432.040 Duties of county and local registrars.
The county and local registrars and their deputies shall: (1) Comply with all instructions of the State Registrar of the Center for Health Statistics. (2)...
432.045 [Amended by 1971 c.16 §1; 1983 c.709 §29; repealed by 1997 c.783 §48]
432.050 [Amended by 1983 c.709 §30; repealed by 1997 c.783 §48]
432.055 [Repealed by 1973 c.829 §71]
432.060 Confidentiality and inadmissibility of information obtained in connection with epidemiologic morbidity and mortality studies; exceptions; nonliability of informants.
(1)(a) All information procured by or furnished to the Department of Human Services, any federal public health agency or any nonprofit health agency that is...
432.075 Duty to furnish information to state registrar; immunity.
(1) Any person having knowledge of the facts shall furnish all information the person may possess regarding any birth, death, fetal death, induced termination of...
432.080 Copy of vital records furnished without charge for use in proceeding on war veteran�s benefits.
Notwithstanding ORS 432.146, the State Registrar of the Center for Health Statistics or the county registrar shall furnish, without charge therefor, a certified copy of...
432.085 Sale of birth and death certificate copies; rules.
The Department of Human Services shall adopt, taking into consideration local service needs and interests, rules to allow a county registrar to sell, within six...
432.090 Issuance of additional birth certificate; fee; form; distribution of funds received.
(1) In addition to the original birth certificate, the State Registrar of the Center for Health Statistics shall issue upon request and upon payment of...
432.095 Application of chapter provisions.
The provisions of this chapter regarding the copying, inspection, disclosure or furnishing of vital records and vital reports also apply to all certificates or reports...
432.105 Procedure for transmitting and filing certificates.
(1) Each local registrar shall promptly transmit each birth certificate and each death certificate filed with the local registrar to the county registrar. The county...
432.110 [Repealed by 1971 c.16 §3]
432.115 Form of records and reports; status; disposition; rules.
To preserve vital records and vital reports, the State Registrar of the Center for Health Statistics is authorized to prepare typewritten, photographic, electronic or other...
432.119 Abstracts of birth and death certificates as public records; limitations.
(1) Abstracts of birth and death certificates as provided in ORS 432.105 are public records and open to public inspection except as provided in this...
432.120 [Amended by 1983 c.709 §20; repealed by 1997 c.783 §14 (432.121 enacted in lieu of 432.120)]
432.121 Disclosure and certification of records and reports; rules.
(1) To protect the integrity of vital records and vital reports, to ensure their proper use and to ensure the efficient and proper administration of...
432.122 Verification of birth certificate and death records; rules.
To protect the integrity of vital records and to prevent the fraudulent use of birth certificates of deceased persons, the State Registrar of the Center...
432.124 Disclosure of death records filed in conjunction with claims or interests in land.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all death records filed in conjunction with owning or having a claim or interest in land in the county...
432.125 [Repealed by 1983 c.709 §45]
432.130 Compelling access to records.
Any person who is refused an inspection of any record provided for in this chapter may proceed in the manner set forth in ORS 183.480...
432.135 [Amended by 1983 c.709 §9; renumbered 432.142]
432.140 Application for delayed certificates.
(1) When a certificate of birth of a person born in this state has not been filed within one year after the date of birth,...
432.142 Procedure when application for delayed certificate denied.
(1) If the State Registrar of the Center for Health Statistics refuses to file a delayed certificate of birth under the provisions of ORS 432.140,...
432.145 [Amended by 1957 c.339 §1; 1971 c.16 §2; 1979 c.696 §1; 1983 c.709 §21; repealed by 1991 c.245 §1 (432.146 enacted in lieu of 432.145)]
432.146 Fees.
Except as provided in ORS 432.090 and 432.312, subject to the review of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, the Department of Human Services shall...
432.150 [Amended by 1957 c.185 §1; repealed by 1983 c.709 §45]
432.155 [Repealed by 1979 c.696 §14]
432.160 [Repealed by 1971 c.743 §432]
432.165 Death records.
(1) All superintendents or managers or other persons in charge of institutions shall keep a record of personal data concerning each person admitted or confined...
432.175 [Formerly 43.380; 1983 c.709 §34; 1985 c.565 §71; repealed by 1997 c.783 §48]
432.180 Certified copies of vital records or vital reports; evidentiary value; fraud or misrepresentation.
(1) A certified copy of a vital record or vital report or any part thereof shall be considered for all purposes the same as the...
432.205 [Amended by 1979 c.426 §2; 1983 c.709 §6; 1995 c.514 §5; repealed by 1997 c.783 §22 (432.206 enacted in lieu of 432.205)]
432.206 Compulsory registration of births; rules; persons required to file.
(1) A certificate of birth for each birth that occurs in this state shall be filed with the county registrar of the county in which...
432.210 [Repealed by 1983 c.709 §45]
432.215 [Amended by 1983 c.709 §35; repealed by 1997 c.783 §48]
432.220 [Repealed by 1983 c.709 §45]
432.230 When new certificate issued; contents; amendment upon adoption; delayed certificate.
(1) The State Registrar of the Center for Health Statistics shall establish a new certificate of birth for a person born in this state when...
432.235 Amendment of vital record or vital report; rules.
(1) A certificate or report registered under this chapter may be amended only in accordance with this chapter and rules adopted by the State Registrar...
432.240 Issuance of certified copy of certificate of birth to adopted persons; Contact Preference Form.
(1) Upon receipt of a written application to the state registrar, any adopted person 21 years of age and older born in the State of...
432.255 [Repealed by 1983 c.709 §45]
432.260 [Amended by 1981 c.6 §1; repealed by 1983 c.709 §45]
432.265 [Repealed by 1983 c.709 §45]
432.266 Commemorative Certificate of Stillbirth; rules.
(1) The State Registrar of the Center for Health Statistics shall establish a Commemorative Certificate of Stillbirth. The certificate shall be signed by the state...
432.270 [Repealed by 1983 c.709 §45]
432.275 [Repealed by 1983 c.709 §45]
432.280 [Repealed by 1983 c.709 §45]
432.285 Availability of voluntary acknowledgment of paternity form; responsibility of health care facility and parents.
Any health care facility as defined in ORS 442.015 shall make available to the biological parents of any child born live, or expected to be...
432.287 Voluntary acknowledgment of paternity form; rules; filing; when form is sworn document; copy to child support agency.
(1) The Director of Human Services shall adopt by rule a form of a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity that includes the minimum requirements specified by...
432.289 Full faith and credit.
A determination of paternity by another state is entitled to full faith and credit. [1995 c.514 §4a]
432.290 [1981 c.221 §3; 1983 c.709 §18; 1995 c.514 §6; renumbered 432.235 in 1995]
432.300 Determination of death.
(1) A person is dead if the person has sustained either: (a) Irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions; or (b) Irreversible cessation of all...
432.305 [Repealed by 1963 c.200 §6]
432.307 Compulsory filing of death certificates; persons required to file.
(1) A certificate of death for each death that occurs in this state shall be submitted to the county registrar of the county in which...
432.310 [Amended by 1959 c.629 §32; repealed by 1963 c.200 §6]
432.312 Death certificate fee; use; limitation.
(1) The Department of Human Services shall impose and collect a filing fee of $7 for each certificate of death. Of the fee, $2 shall...
432.315 [Amended by 1959 c.629 §33; repealed by 1963 c.200 §6]
432.317 Report upon receipt of body or fetus; authorization for final disposition; rules.
(1) The funeral service practitioner or person acting as a funeral service practitioner who first assumes possession of a dead body or fetus shall make...
432.320 [Repealed by 1963 c.200 §6]
432.325 [Repealed by 1963 c.200 §6]
432.327 Authority to grant extensions on certificates, reports and permits; rules.
Upon such conditions as the State Registrar of the Center for Health Statistics may prescribe to ensure compliance with the purposes of this chapter, by...
432.330 [Repealed by 1963 c.200 §6]
432.333 Reports on fetal deaths.
(1) Each fetal death of 350 grams or more, or, if weight is unknown, of 20 completed weeks gestation or more, calculated from the date...
432.335 [Repealed by 1963 c.200 §6]
432.337 Status of reports under ORS 435.496; rules.
The reports required under ORS 435.496 are statistical reports to be used only for medical and health purposes and shall not be incorporated into the...
432.340 [Repealed by 1963 c.200 §6]
432.345 [Repealed by 1983 c.709 §45]
432.405 Filing of marriage record; rules.
(1) A record of each marriage performed in this state shall be filed with the Center for Health Statistics and shall be registered if it...
432.408 Record of dissolution of marriage judgment; rules.
(1) A record of each dissolution of marriage judgment by any court in this state shall be filed by the clerk of the court with...
432.410 [Repealed by 1959 c.430 §5]
432.412 Marriage and divorce records subject to full disclosure; exemption.
(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, notwithstanding any other provision of law, all marriage records and all divorce records in the...
432.415 Reports on adoptions.
(1) For each judgment of adoption entered by a court in this state, the court shall require the preparation of a report of adoption on...
432.420 Access to adoption records.
The documents forwarded to the State Registrar of the Center for Health Statistics or sealed under ORS 432.230 may be opened by the state registrar...
432.425 [Amended by 1955 c.680 §1; repealed by 1983 c.709 §45]
432.430 Duty to report on child of unknown parentage; rules.
(1) A person who assumes the custody of a child of unknown parentage shall report on a form and in a manner prescribed by the...
432.500 Definitions.
As used in ORS 432.510 to 432.550 and 432.900: (1) �Clinical laboratory� means a facility where microbiological, serological, chemical, hematological, immunohematological, immunological, toxicological, cytogenetical, exfoliative...
432.510 Cancer and tumor registry system; purpose; rulemaking; duties of Department of Human Services.
(1) The Department of Human Services shall establish a uniform, statewide, population-based registry system for the collection of information determining the incidence of cancer and...
432.520 Reporting requirement; review of records; special studies.
(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, any health care facility in which patients are diagnosed or provided treatment for cancer or...
432.530 Confidentiality of information.
(1) All identifying information regarding individual patients, health care facilities and practitioners reported pursuant to ORS 432.520 shall be confidential and privileged. Except as required...
432.540 Use of confidential data; rules.
(1) The Department of Human Services shall adopt rules under which confidential data may be used by third parties to conduct research and studies for...
432.550 Action for damages; license; disciplinary action prohibited for good faith participation in reporting of data.
(1) No action for damages arising from the disclosure of confidential or privileged information may be maintained against any person, or the employer or employee...
432.560 [1995 c.585 §8; repealed by 2001 c.900 §261]
432.570 No requirement or prohibition regarding operation of separate cancer and tumor registry.
Nothing in ORS 432.510 to 432.550 and 432.900 shall prohibit a health care facility from operating its own registry for cancer and benign tumors of...
432.900 Civil penalty.
(1) In addition to any other liability or penalty provided by law, the Director of Human Services may impose a civil penalty on any person...
432.990 [Amended by 1963 c.200 §5; 1971 c.743 §369; repealed by 1997 c.783 §48]
432.993 Unlawful use of vital record or vital report; criminal penalty.
(1) A person commits the crime of unlawful use of a vital record or vital report if the person willfully and knowingly: (a) Makes any...
432.995 Obstructing the keeping of vital records or vital reports; criminal penalty.
(1) A person commits the crime of obstructing the keeping of vital records or vital reports if the person knowingly and willfully: (a) Refuses to...

Last modified: August 7, 2008