The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-25
LEGAL.
Published in The Topeka State Journal
March %, 1911
SENATE Bull No. 90.

throughout the state of Kansas, to pro-
vide for the appointment of a state reg
1strar, employees and local registrars
and empowering the state board of
health to make rules and regulations
for carving out the provisions of this
act and providing certain penalties.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
Section /. That it shall be the duty of
the State Board of Health to have charge
births and deaths; to formulate and pre-
pare the necessary methods, forms and
blanks for obtaining and preserving such
records and to insure the faithful regis
tration of the same in the townships,
cities, counties and in the central divi-
sion of vital statistics, of the State Board
of Health at the capitol of the state. The
said board shall be charged with the uni
form and thorough enforcement Of the
law throughout the state and is author
lied and directed to make and publish
uniform rules and regulations not in con-
flict with the laws of the state for car
Tying out the provisions of this act, which
rules and regulations shall become effec
tive when published in the official state
paper. Any person who shall violate any
of the rules and regulations so made and
published in the official state paper shall
be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and
ON conviction, shall be punished by a fine
of not less than five dollars nor more than
fifty dollars or imprisonment in the
county Jail not more than six months, or
both, in the discretion of the court.
Sec ,. That the secretary of the State
Board Of Health shall have general super
vision over the central division of vital
statistics which is hereby authorized to
be established by said board and which
the state registrar of vital statistics,
whom the State Board of Health shall
appoint, upon the recommendation of the
secretary within ninety days after the
taking effect of this law, and who shall be
a competent vital statistician. The term
Of office of state registrar of vital stats
tics shall be four years, or during the
faithful and efficient performance of
duty, beginning with the first day of
July of the year in which this act Shall
take effect, and any vacancy occurring in
the office of the registrar of vital stats
tics shall be filled by appointment of the
secretary of the State Board of Health.
Sec. 8. That for the purposes of this act
the state shall be divided into such reg
istration districts as the State Board of
Health may from time to time designate.
Sec. I. The city clerk of each incorpor-
ated city shall he the local registrar of
vital statistics and may issue burial per
Inits and receive birth certificates for any
Sec s. That the body of any person
whose death occurs in the state shall not
be inferred, deposited in vault or tomb,
cremated or otherwise disposed of or re-
moved from or into any registration dis
trict until a permit for burial, removal or
other disposition shall have been prop
erly issued by the registrar of the regis
tratton district in which the death oc-
CURED. And no burial or removal permits
shall be issued by any registrar until a
complete and satisfactory certificate and
return of the death has been filed with
him as hereinafter provided. But when d
body is removed from a district into an
adjacent or neaS by district for interment,
not recurring the use OF a common carrier
or the issuance of removal permit then
the registrars burial permit from the dis
trict where the death occurred may be
accepted; provided that removal or
transit permit issued in accordance with
the Law and health regulations of the
place where the death occurred, whether
in Kansas outside of the state shall be
accepted by the local registrar of the dis
tTict where the body is to be inferred or
finally disposed Of as a basis upon which
he shall issue local burial permit, in the
same way as a death occurring in his dis
trict bat shaIi plainly enter upon the race
of the copy of the record which he shall
make for return to the state registrar,
the fact that it was a body shipped in for
interment and give the actual place OF
death.
Sec. g. That in case of any death oc-
curing without medical attendance it
shall be the duty of the undertaken to
notify the registrar of such death. The
registrar is authorized to make the GER
tificate and return from the statement of
the relatives or other persons having
adequate knowledge of the facts; pro-
vided further. that if the circumstances
of the case render it probable that the
death was caused by unla wful or sus-
picious MEANS the registrar shall then
refer the case to the coroner for his in
vestigation and certification, and the cor
oner shall state in his certificate the ma
ture of the disease or the manner of
death, and if from external causes, or
Violences, whether (probably) accidental,
suicidal or homicidal, as determined by
the inquest and shall in either case fur
nish such information as may be required
by the state registrar to properly classify
the death.
Sec. 7. That the undertaken or person
acting as undertaken shall be responsible
for obtaining and filing the certificate of
death with the registrar and securing the
burial or removal permit prior to any dis
position of the body. He shall obtain the
personal and statistical particulars re-
quired from the person best qualified to
supply them. over the signature and ad-
dress of his informant. He shall then pre-
sent the certificate to the attending phys1-
clan, if any, or to the health officer or
coroner, as directed by the registrar, for
the medical certificate of the cause of
death and other particulars necessary to
keep the records as specified In section 6.
He shall then state the facts required
relative to the date and place of burial
over his signature and with his address
and present the completed certificate to
the registrar before the issuance of a
burial or removal permit The undertaken
shall deliver the burial permit to the sex
ton or person in charge of the burial be-
the removal and transit permits to the
box containing the corpse when shipped
by any transportation company, said per-
init 10 accompany the corpse to its desti-
nation, and where, if within the state, it
shall be taken up by the local registrar
of the district in which the interment is
made, who shall issue a burial permit
therefor
Sec. S. That no sexton or person in
charge of any premises in which inter
ments or other disposition of bodies are
made shall inter or permit interment or
other disposition of any body unless it is
accompanied by burial permit as herein
provided. And each sexton or person in
charge of any burial ground shall endorse
upon tive permit the date of the interment
over his signature and shall return all
permits so endorsed to the local registrar
of the district within ten days after the
date of interment. He shall also keep a
record of all interments made in the
premises under his charge stating the
name of the deceased person, place of
death, date of burial. the name and ad-
dress of the undertaken, which shall at all
times be open to public inspection.
Sec 9. That all births that occur in the
state shall be promptly registered in the
districts in which they occur as herein
after provided.
Sec. 10. That it shall be the duty of the
attending physician or midwife to file a
certificate of birth, properly and com
pletely filled out, giving all of the par
uculars required by this act, and the rules
and regulations OF the State Board of
Health. with the local registrar of the
district in which the birth occurs, within
ten days after the date of birth and if
there be nc. attending physician or mid