Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 70 Public Health And Safety - Chapter 70.58 Vital Statistics

70.58.005 Definitions
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Business days" means Monday through Friday except official state ...

70.58.010 Registration districts
Each city of the first class shall constitute a primary registration district and each county and the territory of counties jointly comprising a health district, ...

70.58.020 Local registrars -- Deputies
Under the direction and control of the state registrar, the health officer of each city of the first class shall be the local registrar in ...

70.58.030 Duties of local registrars
The local registrar shall supply blank forms of certificates to such persons as require them. He or she shall carefully examine each certificate of birth, ...

70.58.040 Compensation of local registrars
A local registrar shall be paid the sum of one dollar for each birth, death, or fetal death certificate registered for his district which sum ...

70.58.050 Duty to enforce law
The local registrars are hereby charged with the strict and thorough enforcement of the provisions of *this act in their districts, under the supervision and ...

70.58.055 Certificates generally
(1) To promote and maintain nation-wide uniformity in the system of vital statistics, the certificates required by this chapter or by the rules adopted under ...

70.58.061 Electronic and hard copy transmission
The department is authorized to prescribe by rule the schedule and system for electronic and hard copy transmission of certificates and documents required by this ...

70.58.065 Local registrar use of electronic databases
The department, in mutual agreement with a local health officer as defined in RCW 70.05.010, may authorize a local registrar to access the statewide birth ...

70.58.070 Registration of births required
All births that occur in the state shall be immediately registered in the districts in which they occur, as hereinafter provided.[1907 c 83 § 11; ...

70.58.080 Birth certificates -- Filing -- Establishing paternity -- Surname of child
(1) Within ten days after the birth of any child, the attending physician, midwife, or his or her agent shall: (a) Fill out a certificate ...

70.58.082 Vital records -- Rules -- Release of copies
No person may prepare or issue any vital record that purports to be an original, certified copy, or copy of a vital record except as ...

70.58.085 Birth certificates suitable for display -- Issuance -- Fee -- Disposition of funds
(1) In addition to the original birth certificate, the state registrar shall issue upon request and upon payment of the fee established pursuant to subsection ...

70.58.095 New certificate of birth -- Legitimation, paternity -- Substitution for original -- Inspection of original, when -- When delayed registration required
The state registrar of vital statistics shall establish a new certificate of birth for a person born in this state when he receives a request ...

70.58.100 Supplemental report on name of child
It shall be the duty of every local registrar when any certificate of birth of a living child is presented without statement of the given ...

70.58.104 Reproductions of vital records -- Disclosure of information for research purposes -- Furnishing of birth and death records by local registrars
(1) The state registrar may prepare typewritten, photographic, electronic, or other reproductions of records of birth, death, fetal death, marriage, or decrees of divorce, annulment, ...

70.58.107 Fees charged by department and local registrars
The department of health shall charge a fee of twenty dollars for certified copies of records and for copies or information provided for research, statistical, ...

70.58.110 Delayed registration of births -- Authorized
Whenever a birth which occurred in this state on or after July 1, 1907, is not on record in the office of the state registrar ...

70.58.120 Delayed registration of births -- Application -- Evidence required
The delayed registration of birth form shall be provided by the state registrar and shall be signed by the registrant if of legal age, or ...

70.58.130 Delayed registration of births -- Where registered -- Copy as evidence
The birth shall be registered in the records of the state registrar. A certified copy of the record shall be prima facie evidence of the ...

70.58.145 Order establishing record of birth when delayed registration not available -- Procedure
When a person alleged to be born in this state is unable to meet the requirements for a delayed registration of birth in accordance with ...

70.58.150 "Fetal death," "evidence of life," defined
A fetal death means any product of conception that shows no evidence of life after complete expulsion or extraction from its mother. The words "evidence ...

70.58.160 Certificate of death or fetal death required
A certificate of every death or fetal death shall be filed with the local registrar of the district in which the death or fetal death ...

70.58.170 Certificate of death or fetal death -- By whom filed
The funeral director or person having the right to control the disposition of the human remains under RCW 68.50.160 shall file the certificate of death ...

70.58.175 Certificate of death -- Domestic partnership information
Information recorded on death certificates shall include domestic partnership status and the surviving partner's information to the same extent such information is recorded for marital ...

70.58.180 Certificate when no physician, physician's assistant, or advanced registered nurse practitioner in attendance -- Legally accepted cause of death
If the death occurred without medical attendance, the funeral director or person having the right to control the disposition of the human remains under RCW ...

70.58.190 Permit to dispose of human remains when cause of death undetermined
If the cause of death cannot be determined within three business days, the certification of its cause may be filed after the prescribed period, but ...

70.58.210 Birth certificate upon adoption
(1) Whenever a decree of adoption has been entered declaring a child, born in the state of Washington, adopted in any court of competent jurisdiction ...

70.58.230 Permits for burial, removal, etc., required -- Removal to another district without permit, notice to registrar, fee
It shall be unlawful for any person to inter, deposit in a vault, grave, or tomb, cremate, or otherwise dispose of, or disinter or remove ...

70.58.240 Duties of funeral directors
Each funeral director or person having the right to control the disposition of the human remains under RCW 68.50.160 shall obtain a certificate of death, ...

70.58.250 Burial-transit permit -- Requisites
The burial-transit permit shall contain a statement by the local registrar and over his signature, that a satisfactory certificate of death having been filed with ...

70.58.260 Burial grounds -- Duties of sexton
It shall be unlawful for any person in charge of any premises in which bodies of deceased persons are interred, cremated, or otherwise permanently disposed ...

70.58.270 Data on inmates of hospitals, etc
All superintendents or managers, or other persons in charge of hospitals, almshouses, lying-in or other institutions, public or private, to which persons resort for treatment ...

70.58.280 Penalty
(1) Every person who violates or willfully fails, neglects, or refuses to comply with any provisions of *this act is guilty of a misdemeanor and ...

70.58.380 Certificates for out-of-state marriage license requirements
The department shall prescribe by rule a schedule of fees for providing certificates necessary to meet marriage license requirements of other states. The fees shall ...

70.58.390 Certificates of presumed death
A county coroner, medical examiner, or the prosecuting attorney having jurisdiction may file a certificate of presumed death when the official filing the certificate determines ...