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CT Gen Stat § 7-43 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 93 - Registrars of Vital Statistics|Section 7-43 - Municipal ordinances.

 Section 7-43 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 597; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 5; P.A. 82-327, S. 12.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-45 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 93 - Registrars of Vital Statistics|Section 7-45 - Preparation of certificates.

 Each person making any certificate of birth, marriage, civil union, death or fetal death, or any copy of such certificate for the commissioner, or any sexton's report required by law, shall cause the same to be typewritten or printed in a legible manner as to all material information or facts required by the provisions of sections 7-48, 7-60, 7-62b, 46b-25 and 46b-29 and contained in such certificate. If the certificate is in paper format, such person shall sign the certificate in black ink, shall state therein in what capacity such person so signs, and shall type or print in a legible manner the name of each person signing such certificate, under such person's signature. If the certificate is in an electronic format, such certificate shall be authenticated by the electronic vital records system of the department. Any certificate not complying with the requirements of this section shall be returned by the registrar with whom it is filed to the person making the same for the proper correction.(1949 Rev., S. 567; 1953, S. 231d; 1967, P.A. 313, S. 11; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 79-434, S. 18; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 01-163, S. 7; P.A. 03-188, S. 1; P.A. 05-10, S. 16; P.A. 17-48, S. 2; 17-54, S. 3; P.A. 19-32, S. 2.)History: 1967 act replaced reference to Sec. 46-5 with reference to Secs. 46-5b to 46-5h (later transferred to Secs. 46b-25 to 46b-27 and 46b-29 to 46b-31); P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of health services for commissioner of health, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 79-434 deleted reference to repealed Sec. 7-62 and added reference to Sec. 7-62b; (Revisor's note: In 1993 an obsolete reference to repealed Sec. 46b-31 replaced editorially by the Revisors with reference to Sec. 46b-30); P.A. 93-381 replaced commissioner of health services with commissioner of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 01-163 made technical changes and added provision re fetal death, reference to Sec. 7-60 and provision re authentication of certificate in electronic format; P.A. 03-188 deleted reference to repealed Secs. 46b-26 and 46b-27; P.A. 05-10 applied provisions to a civil union certificate and added reference to Secs. 46b-38hh to 46b-38jj, inclusive; P.A. 17-48 made technical changes; P.A. 17-54 deleted “46b-30, inclusive, or sections 46b-38hh to 46b-38jj, inclusive,” and made technical changes; P.A. 19-32 made a technical change.
CT Gen Stat § 7-46 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 93 - Registrars of Vital Statistics|Section 7-46 - Completion of records.

 The registrars shall complete the records of their respective towns by adding thereto a record of all the births, marriages, deaths and fetal deaths that have occurred in such towns since the date of incorporation of such towns, of which no certificate has been returned to their office, provided the facts upon which such record is made have been obtained from the record of a public official, a church society or under section 7-42, 7-48 or 7-62b, and such record shall indicate the source from which such facts were obtained.(1949 Rev., S. 568; P.A. 79-434, S. 19; P.A. 01-163, S. 8; P.A. 12-80, S. 187.)History: P.A. 79-434 deleted reference to repealed Sec. 7-62 and added reference to Sec. 7-62b; P.A. 01-163 made technical changes and added provisions re fetal death; P.A. 12-80 deleted penalty of fine of not more than $50 or imprisonment of not more than 3 months or both for registrar knowingly making false entry of record of any birth, marriage, death or fetal death.Registrars may make determination whether or not to record an alleged marriage. 9 CS 297.
CT Gen Stat § 7-47 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 93 - Registrars of Vital Statistics|Section 7-47 - Indexes.

 Each registrar of vital statistics shall keep alphabetically arranged separate indexes for each group of vital events and shall enter therein the name of each person whose birth, marriage, death or fetal death is recorded by the registrar.(1949 Rev., S. 569; P.A. 01-163, S. 9.)History: P.A. 01-163 made a technical change and added provisions re separate indexes for each group of vital events and re fetal death.
CT Gen Stat § 7-47a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 93 - Registrars of Vital Statistics|Section 7-47a - Definitions.

 Section 7-47a is repealed, effective October 1, 2001.(P.A. 79-434, S. 1; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 01-163, S. 36.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-47b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 93 - Registrars of Vital Statistics|Section 7-47b - Record keeping of personal data by institutions. Release or disposal of dead body or dead fetus.

 (a) Any person in charge of an institution shall keep a record of personal data concerning each person admitted or confined to such institution. This record shall include information necessary to complete a death certificate, or a birth certificate if applicable. The record shall be made at the time of admission from information provided by the person being admitted or confined, but when it cannot be so obtained, the information shall be obtained from relatives or other persons acquainted with the facts. The name and address of the person providing the information shall be a part of the record.(b) When a dead body or dead fetus is released or disposed of by an institution, the person in charge of the institution shall keep a record showing the name of the decedent, date of death, name and address of the person to whom the body or fetus is released, and the date of removal from the institution. If final disposition is made by the institution, the date, place, and manner of disposition shall also be recorded.(c) Any record required to be kept under this section may be destroyed when the person to whom the record relates is released by the institution, except that if the filing of a birth, death or fetal death certificate is required concerning such person, the record shall not be destroyed until the appropriate certificate is properly filed and registered.(P.A. 79-434, S. 14.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-49 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 93 - Registrars of Vital Statistics|Section 7-49 - Failure to file birth certificate.

 The secretary of any examining board of the healing arts mentioned under section 20-1 or the Department of Public Health, as the case may be, on ascertaining the fact that a person licensed to practice any of the healing arts or midwifery has failed to file a birth certificate as provided under section 7-48, shall immediately request the Commissioner of Public Health to suspend the license of such person, which suspension shall be in effect until such certificate has been filed. Any such person licensed to practice the healing arts or midwifery who engages in practice during the period of such suspension shall be subject to the penalties respectively provided for the practice of his or her profession without a license or certificate of registration.(1949 Rev., S. 582; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58.)History: P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner and department of health services for commissioner and department of health, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 93-381 replaced department and commissioner of health services with department and commissioner of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995.
CT Gen Stat § 7-52 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 93 - Registrars of Vital Statistics|Section 7-52 - Certification of birth registration.

 (a) The registrar of vital statistics of the town in which the birth occurred, the registrar of vital statistics of the town in which the mother resided at the time of the birth or the department shall issue, upon the request of the person to whom the record of birth relates, if over sixteen years of age, or of a parent, guardian, spouse, child, if over eighteen years of age, grandparent or legal representative of such person, a certification of birth registration, which shall contain the name, sex, date of birth, place of birth and date of filing and registration of the certificate of birth of the person to whom it relates, and any other identifying information prescribed by the commissioner.(b) The registrar of vital statistics of any town or city in this state that has access to an electronic vital records system, as authorized by the department, may use such system to issue, in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, a certification of birth registration for such births that are electronically filed in such system.(1949 Rev., S. 573; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 81-138; P.A. 90-67, S. 3; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 01-163, S. 14.)History: P.A. 77-614 substituted department of health services for department of health, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 81-138 specified persons who are allowed access to birth registration records upon request, replacing “any person”; P.A. 90-67 added provision authorizing registrar of town in which mother resided at time of birth to issue certification of birth registration and inserted Subdiv. indicators; P.A. 93-381 replaced department of health services with department of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 01-163 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and amended by making technical changes and adding provisions re request of a guardian, child over 18 years of age or grandparent and re the inclusion of date of registration and any other identifying information prescribed by the commissioner, and added new Subsec. (b) re use of electronic vital records system.See Sec. 7-74 re fee for certification of birth registration.
CT Gen Stat § 7-53a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 93 - Registrars of Vital Statistics|Section 7-53a - Reports re issuance of original birth certificates to adopted persons and certain other persons and filing of contact preference and health history forms.

 (a) Not later than January 1, 2016, and annually thereafter until January 1, 2021, the Commissioner of Public Health shall submit a report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, concerning the number of original birth certificates issued annually to adopted persons eighteen years of age or older whose adoption was finalized on or after October 1, 1983, or the adult children or grandchildren of adopted persons in accordance with section 7-53, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to public health.(b) Not later than January 1, 2016, and annually thereafter until January 1, 2021, the Commissioner of Children and Families shall submit a report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, concerning the number of contact preference forms and medical health history forms annually filed with the department in accordance with section 17a-60a to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to public health. The report shall include the number of birth parents that selected each option described in section 17a-60a.(P.A. 14-133, S. 4.)History: P.A. 14-133 effective June 6, 2014.
CT Gen Stat § 7-55 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 93 - Registrars of Vital Statistics|Section 7-55 - Certification of birth to have force and effect of original.

 Any certification of birth, when properly certified by the registrar of the town in which the birth occurred or of the town in which the mother resided at the time of the birth or the Department of Public Health, shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated in all courts and places and in all actions, proceedings or applications, judicial, administrative or otherwise, and such certification of birth shall have the same force and effect, wherever offered, with respect to the facts therein stated as an original certificate of birth.(1949 Rev., S. 575; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 90-67, S. 4; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58.)History: P.A. 77-614 substituted department of health services for department of health, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 90-67 applied provisions of section to certification of birth certified by registrar of town in which birth occurred or town in which mother resided at time of birth; P.A. 93-381 replaced department of health services with department of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995.Naked assertion of principal witness as to his age held of insufficient probative value, without corroboration from available dependable source of proof, to convict defendant of crime of selling alcoholic liquor to minor. 22 CS 353.
CT Gen Stat § 7-56 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 93 - Registrars of Vital Statistics|Section 7-56 - Issuance of certified copies of birth certificates.

 Section 7-56 is repealed, effective October 1, 2001.(1949 Rev., S. 576; 1972, P.A. 127, S. 7; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 90-67, S. 5; P.A. 91-24, S. 2, 8; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 01-163, S. 36.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-58 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 93 - Registrars of Vital Statistics|Section 7-58 - Record of birth of child born outside United States.

 Any American citizen who becomes the parent of a child or children born outside the United States, and who was a resident of this state at the time of leaving the United States, may file, with the town clerk of the town in which the parents reside or resided, a certified copy of the record of birth of such child or children issued to the parents by an official authorized to issue such records of birth at the place of birth. When such certified copy has been filed, copies of such record of birth may be issued by such town clerk in the manner prescribed by law.(1953, S. 233d; P.A. 01-163, S. 18.)History: P.A. 01-163 deleted provisions re serving with the armed forces or in the employ of the United States government and added provisions re being a resident of this state at the time of leaving the United States.
CT Gen Stat § 7-59 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 93 - Registrars of Vital Statistics|Section 7-59 - Report of foundling.

 (a) The executive authority of any agency or institution, upon accepting the temporary custody of any foundling, shall, not later than ten days after the date of such acceptance, report to the registrar of vital statistics of the town or city where such foundling was found or voluntarily surrendered, in a format prescribed by the department, as follows: The date and place of finding where voluntarily surrendered, the sex, the race, the approximate age, the name and address of such agency or institution and the name given to the child. Except for an infant voluntarily surrendered pursuant to the provisions of section 17a-58, if a child for whom a report of foundling has been registered is later identified and a certificate of birth is found or obtained, the certificate of birth shall be substituted and the report of foundling shall be sealed and filed in a confidential file, and such seal may be broken and the record inspected only upon order of a court of competent jurisdiction. The certificate prescribed by this section shall include such additional information as the department requires.(b) For any infant surrendered pursuant to the provisions of section 17a-58, the hospital shall prepare a report of foundling as described in subsection (a) of this section. If a certificate of birth has already been filed in the state birth registry pursuant to the requirements of section 7-48, the report of foundling shall substitute for the original certificate of birth which shall be sealed and filed in a confidential file at the Department of Public Health. The original certificate of birth shall not be released except upon order of a court of competent jurisdiction.(1949 Rev., S. 579; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 01-163, S. 19; P.A. 11-242, S. 5.)History: P.A. 77-614 substituted department of health services for department of health, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 93-381 replaced department of health services with department of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 01-163 changed provision re forms supplied to format prescribed by the department, changed “color” to “race” and made technical changes; P.A. 11-242 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and amended same to add reporting requirement re location where foundling was voluntarily surrendered and make technical changes, and added Subsec. (b) re hospital's responsibility to prepare report of foundling for any infant surrendered pursuant to Sec. 17a-58.
CT Gen Stat § 7-60 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 93 - Registrars of Vital Statistics|Section 7-60 - Fetal death certificates.

 (a) Each case of fetal death shall be registered and a fetal death certificate shall be filed with the registrar of vital statistics in the manner required by sections 7-48, 7-51 and 7-52 with respect to the filing, content and issuance of birth certificates. A fetus born after a period of gestation of not less than twenty weeks in which there is no attempt at respiration, no action of heart and no movement of voluntary muscle, shall be recorded as a fetal death. A fetal death certificate shall be signed by a physician or, when no physician was in attendance, by the nurse-midwife in attendance at the birth, the Chief Medical Examiner, Deputy Chief Medical Examiner, an associate medical examiner or an authorized assistant medical examiner.(b) Such certificate shall include, on a confidential portion of the certificate, any additional information required by the department, provided the information obtained under this section shall be used only for medical and health purposes.(1949 Rev., S. 581; 1951, 1953, S. 232d; 1969, P.A. 699, S. 19; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 79-47, S. 1; 79-434, S. 5; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 01-163, S. 20; P.A. 03-19, S. 18; P.A. 07-79, S. 2; P.A. 12-197, S. 1.)History: 1969 act specified chief, deputy and authorized assistant medical examiners as signers of certificate replacing former reference simply to “medical examiner”; P.A. 77-614 substituted department of health services for department of health, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 79-47 replaced deputy medical examiner with deputy chief medical examiner and included associate medical examiner as authorized signer; P.A. 79-434 divided section into Subsecs. and added requirement that additional information be used only for medical and health purposes and is not to be placed in permanent official records; P.A. 93-381 replaced department of health services with department of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 01-163 amended Subsec. (a) by adding reference to Secs. 7-50, 7-51 and 7-52 re content and issuance of birth certificates and amended Subsec. (b) by adding provision re confidential portion of certificate, deleting provision re information shall not be incorporated into permanent records of department and making a technical change; P.A. 03-19 made a technical change in Subsec. (a), effective May 12, 2003; P.A. 07-79 amended Subsec. (a) to allow nurse-midwife in attendance at a birth in which a physician is not present to sign the fetal death certificate for a fetus born dead; P.A. 12-197 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting reference to Sec. 7-50.Statute does not address fetal autopsies. 46 CS 204.
CT Gen Stat § 7-61 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 93 - Registrars of Vital Statistics|Section 7-61 - Birth and fetal death certificates to state whether blood test has been made.

 In reporting each birth and fetal death, physicians and others permitted to attend pregnancy cases and required to report births and fetal deaths shall state on the birth certificate or fetal death certificate, as the case may be, whether a blood test for syphilis has been made during such pregnancy upon a specimen of blood taken from the woman who bore the child for which a birth or fetal death certificate is filed and, if made, the date when such test was made, and, if not made, the reason why such test was not made. In no event shall the birth certificate state the result of the test.(1949 Rev., S. 3837; 1953, S. 2049d.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-62 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 93 - Registrars of Vital Statistics|Section 7-62 - Death certificates.

 Section 7-62 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 583–585; 1949, S. 234d; 1957, P.A. 163, S. 10; 1963, P.A. 107; 1967, P.A. 54; 1969, P.A. 442, S. 1; 699, S. 20; P.A. 73-178; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 79-47, S. 2; 79-434, S. 20.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-62a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 93 - Registrars of Vital Statistics|Section 7-62a - Illegal issuance of certificates.

 No person other than a registrar of vital statistics or the commissioner shall issue or cause to be issued any certificate or document which is, or purports to be, an original or certified copy of a certificate of birth, death, fetal death or marriage. No person other than such registrar or the commissioner shall certify or purport to certify as a true copy any certificate of birth, death, fetal death or marriage. No person other than a registrar of vital statistics or the commissioner shall issue or cause to be issued an uncertified copy of a certificate of birth, death, fetal death or marriage, in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of section 7-51a. Any person who violates this section shall be fined not more than one hundred fifty dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.(1963, P.A. 285; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 01-163, S. 21.)History: P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of health services for commissioner of health, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 93-381 replaced commissioner of health services with commissioner of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995 (Revisor's note: The Revisors editorially changed the reference to “one hundred and fifty dollars” to “one hundred fifty dollars” for consistency with customary usage); P.A. 01-163 made technical changes and added provision re issuance of uncertified copy of vital record certificate.