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Ohio Rev Code § 3705.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3705 | Vital Statistics|Section 3705.05 | Local Registrars - Deputy Registrar - Records.

Effective: February 12, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 172 - 123rd General Assembly|In each primary registration district, the board of health of the health district, on the recommendation of the health commissioner, shall appoint the local registrar of vital statistics. When a state hospital or other public institution has been made a primary registration district, the superintendent, or other person in charge thereof, shall be the local registrar of such district. When two or more primary registration districts have been combined into one primary registration district, the health commissioners of the health districts that constitute the combined primary registration district shall jointly appoint the local registrar who is to act as local registrar for the combined primary registration district. If the health commissioners fail to appoint the local registrar for the combined primary registration district, the director of health shall appoint the local registrar.With the approval of the director of health, each local registrar shall appoint a deputy registrar who, in case of the absence, illness, or disability of the local registrar, shall act in the local registrar's stead. Acceptance of appointment as deputy registrar shall be in writing and shall be filed with the director. No funeral director or embalmer shall serve either as a local registrar or as a deputy registrar.In a city registration district, all the records of vital statistics shall be kept in the office of the board of health of the city health district. In a general health district, all the records of vital statistics shall be kept at the office of the board of health of such district.
Ohio Rev Code § 3705.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3705 | Vital Statistics|Section 3705.06 | Local Registrar to Supply Forms of Certificates.

Effective: March 16, 1989|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 790 - 117th General Assembly|The local registrar of vital statistics shall supply blank forms of certificates and instructions to such persons as require them, and shall require each birth, fetal death, or death certificate, when presented for filing, to be made out in accordance with sections 3705.01 to 3705.29 of the Revised Code, the rules adopted by the director of health, and the registration instructions of the director. If a birth, fetal death, or death certificate is incomplete or unsatisfactory, the local registrar shall indicate the defects therein and withhold registering the certificate or issuing a burial permit until such certificate is corrected.
Ohio Rev Code § 3705.071 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3705 | Vital Statistics|Section 3705.071 | Copy of Death Certificate of Child to Be Sent to County of Residence.

Effective: October 5, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 448 - 123rd General Assembly|On receipt of a death certificate of a person who was under eighteen years of age at death, the local registrar of vital statistics shall determine the county in which the person resided at the time of death. If the county of residence was other than the county in which the person died, the registrar, after registering the certificate and no later than four weeks after receiving it, shall make a copy of the certificate and send it to the local registrar of vital statistics of the county in which the person resided at the time of death.
Ohio Rev Code § 3705.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3705 | Vital Statistics|Section 3705.08 | Director Shall Prescribe Forms.

Effective: September 29, 2017|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly|(A) The director of health, by rule, shall prescribe the form of records and certificates required by this chapter. Records and certificates shall include the items and information prescribed by the director, including the items recommended by the national center for health statistics of the United States department of health and human services, subject to approval of and modification by the director.(B) All birth certificates shall include a statement setting forth the names of the child's parents.(C) All death certificates shall include, in the medical certification portion of the certificate, a space to indicate, if the deceased individual is female and the manner of death is determined to be a suspicious or violent death, whether any of the following conditions apply to the individual:(1) Not pregnant within the past year;(2) Pregnant at the time of death;(3) Not pregnant, but had been pregnant within forty-two days prior to the time of death;(4) Not pregnant, but had been pregnant within forty-three days to one year prior to the time of death;(5) Unknown whether pregnant within the past year.(D)(1) The director shall prescribe electronic methods and forms for obtaining registration of births, deaths, and other vital statistics in each registration district, and for preserving the records of the office of vital statistics, and no forms or blanks shall be used other than those prescribed by the director.(2) All birth, fetal death, and death records and certificates shall be certified. Except as provided in division (G) of section 3705.09, section 3705.12, 3705.121, 3705.122, or 3705.124, division (D) of section 3705.15, or section 3705.16 of the Revised Code, a birth certificate requiring signature may be electronically certified by the person in charge of the institution or that person's designee. A death certificate may be electronically certified by the individual who attests to the facts of death.(3) All vital records shall contain the date received for filing.(4) Information and signatures required in certificates, records, or reports authorized by this chapter may be filed and registered by photographic, electronic, or other means as prescribed by the director.
Ohio Rev Code § 3705.091 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3705 | Vital Statistics|Section 3705.091 | Acknowledgment of Paternity Affidavits.

Effective: March 22, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 180 - 123rd General Assembly|(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 Revised Code with respect to that child at the office of the local registrar, the local registrar shall provide a notary public to notarize the acknowledgment. The local registrar shall send a signed and notarized acknowledgment of paternity to the office of child support in the department of job and family services pursuant to section 3111.22 of the Revised Code. The local registrar shall send the acknowledgment no later than ten days after it has been signed and notarized. If the local registrar knows a man is presumed under section 3111.03 of the Revised Code to be the father of the child and that the presumed father is not the man who signed or is attempting to sign an acknowledgment with respect to the child, the local registrar shall not notarize or send the acknowledgment pursuant to this section.(B) The local registrar of vital statistics shall provide an acknowledgment of paternity affidavit described in division (A) of this section to any person that requests it.(C) The department of health shall store all acknowledgments of paternity affidavits it receives pursuant to section 3111.24 of the Revised Code. The department of health shall send to the office any acknowledgment the department is storing that the office requests. The department of health shall adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to govern the method of storage of the acknowledgments and to implement this section.(D) The department of health and the department of job and family services shall enter into an agreement regarding expenses incurred by the department of health in comparing acknowledgment of paternity affidavits to birth records and storage of acknowledgment of paternity affidavits.
Ohio Rev Code § 3705.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3705 | Vital Statistics|Section 3705.10 | Delayed Birth Certificate.

Effective: October 17, 2019|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly|Any birth certificate submitted for filing eleven or more days after the birth occurred constitutes a delayed birth registration. A delayed birth certificate may be filed in accordance with rules which shall be adopted by the director of health. The rules shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following requirements for each delayed birth certificate filed on or after July 1, 1990: (A) The certificate shall be accompanied by all social security numbers that have been issued to the parents of the child, unless the division of child support in the department of job and family services, acting in accordance with regulations prescribed under the "Family Support Act of 1988," 102 Stat. 2353, 42 U.S.C.A. 405, as amended, finds good cause for not requiring that the numbers be furnished with the certificate. (B) The parents' social security numbers shall not be recorded on the certificate. (C) No social security number obtained under this section shall be used for any purpose other than the purposes specified in division (B)(1) of section 3705.07 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 3705.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3705 | Vital Statistics|Section 3705.11 | Report of Foundling Child.

Effective: March 16, 1989|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 790 - 117th General Assembly|Whoever finds a living infant of unknown parentage shall immediately report such finding to the local registrar of vital statistics of the registration district in which the child is found, on a prescribed form which shall state:(A) Date of finding;(B) Place of finding;(C) Sex of child;(D) Race of the child;(E) Approximate age of the child;(F) Name and address of the person or institution with whom the child has been placed for care. The place where the child was found shall be known as the place of birth, and the date of birth shall be determined by approximation.The person, superintendent, or manager of the institution with whom a foundling child is placed for care shall give such child a name within ten days and shall promptly report the name given to the local registrar of the registration district in which the child was found. The foundling report shall constitute the birth certificate for such foundling child and sections 3705.01 to 3705.29 of the Revised Code, relating to birth certificates or records, shall apply in the same manner and with the same effect to such report. If a foundling child is later identified and an original birth record is found or obtained, the foundling report shall cease to be a public record. Such foundling report shall be placed in an envelope which shall be sealed by the department and shall not be open to inspection or copy unless so ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction. All copies of the foundling report in the possession of the local registrar or the probate court as well as any and all index references thereto shall be destroyed.
Ohio Rev Code § 3705.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3705 | Vital Statistics|Section 3705.12 | Issuance of New or Foreign Birth Record After Adoption - Access to Original Record, Adoption File.

Effective: March 20, 2015|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 23 - 130th General Assembly|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 born in this state whose adoption was decreed on or after January 1, 1964, the department of health shall issue, unless otherwise requested by the adoptive parents, a new birth record using the child's adopted name and the names of and data concerning the adoptive parents. The new birth record shall have the same overall appearance as the record that would have been issued under section 3705.09 of the Revised Code if the adopted child had been born to the adoptive parents. Where handwriting is required to effect that appearance, the department shall supply the handwriting. Upon the issuance of the new birth record, the original birth record shall cease to be a public record. The index references to the original birth record, including references that were not a public record under this section as it existed prior to the effective date of this amendment, are a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code. The department shall place the original birth record and the items sent by the probate court pursuant to section 3107.19 of the Revised Code in an adoption file and seal the file. The contents of the adoption file are not a public record and shall be available only in accordance with section 3705.126 of the Revised Code. For the purposes of sections 149.43 and 1347.08 of the Revised Code, the contents of the adoption file include any contact preference form, biological parent's name redaction request form, or social and medical history accepted and maintained by the department.The department of health shall promptly forward a copy of the new birth record to the local registrar of vital statistics of the district in which the birth occurred. The local registrar shall file a copy of the new birth record along with and in the same manner as the other copies of birth records in the possession of the local registrar. All copies of the original birth record and all other papers, documents, and index references pertaining to the original birth record in the possession of the local registrar or the probate court shall be destroyed, except that the probate court shall retain permanently in the file of the adoption proceedings information that is necessary to enable the court to identify both the child's original birth record and the child's new birth record.
Ohio Rev Code § 3705.121 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3705 | Vital Statistics|Section 3705.121 | Adoption Decreed in Out-of-State Court.

Effective: March 20, 2015|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 23 - 130th General Assembly|When the adoption of a child whose birth occurred in this state is decreed by a court in another state and when the department of health has received, from the court that decreed the adoption, an official communication containing information similar to that contained in the certificate of adoption for adoptions decreed in this state, section 3705.12 of the Revised Code shall apply to the child's case just as if the adoption had taken place in this state. The department shall place the original birth record and all papers and documents in its possession that pertain to the original birth record or to the adoption of the child in an adoption file and seal the file. The contents of the adoption file are not a public record and shall be made available only in accordance with section 3705.126 of the Revised Code. Index references to the original birth record, including references that were not a public record under section 3705.12 of the Revised Code as that section existed before September 18, 1996, are a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 3705.122 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3705 | Vital Statistics|Section 3705.122 | Foreign Birth Record.

Effective: March 20, 2015|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 23 - 130th General Assembly|(A) The department of health shall issue a foreign birth record as follows: (1) On receipt of the items sent by a probate court pursuant to section 3107.19 of the Revised Code concerning the adoption of a person born in a foreign country, unless the adoptive parents or adopted person over eighteen years of age requests that such record not be issued;(2) On receipt of an order issued under section 3107.18 of the Revised Code.(B) A foreign birth record shall be the same in all respects as a birth record issued under section 3705.12 of the Revised Code, except that it shall show the actual country of birth. After registration of the birth record in the new name of the adopted person, the department shall place the items sent by the probate court in an adoption file and seal the file. The contents of the adoption file are not a public record and shall be made available only in accordance with section 3705.126 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 3705.123 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3705 | Vital Statistics|Section 3705.123 | Records for Adoptions Decreed Before 1/1/1964.

Effective: March 20, 2015|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 23 - 130th General Assembly|No original birth record of any person whose birth occurred in this state and whose adoption was decreed before January 1, 1964, no birth record in the adopted name of any person whose birth occurred in this state and whose adoption was decreed before January 1, 1964, and no papers or documents that pertain to either such type of birth record or to the adoption of any such person shall be sealed on or after March 19, 1985. The department of health shall maintain in an adoption file all such records, papers, and documents that are in the possession of the department and were sealed pursuant to division (C) or (D) of section 3705.12 of the Revised Code as it existed before March 19, 1985, or that were mistakenly or otherwise sealed. The contents of the adoption file are not a public record and shall be made available only in accordance with section 3705.126 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 3705.124 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3705 | Vital Statistics|Section 3705.124 | Application for New Birth Record.

Effective: March 20, 2015|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 23 - 130th General Assembly|An adopted person whose birth occurred in this state, whose adoption was decreed before January 1, 1964, who did not have a new or reissued birth record in the person's adopted name prepared pursuant to division (C) or (D) of section 3705.12 of the Revised Code as those divisions existed before March 19, 1985, and whose adoption is in full force and effect, may apply to the department of health at any time for the preparation of a new birth record in the person's adopted name. On receipt of such an application, the department shall prepare a new birth record in the person's name, in accordance with, and in the form described in, section 3705.12 of the Revised Code. On preparation of the new birth record, the original birth record of the applicant or the birth record issued in the adopted name of the applicant before January 1, 1964, that is being replaced, whichever is applicable, shall cease to be a public record. The department shall maintain the birth record that ceased to be a public record and papers and documents that pertain to it or to the adoption of the applicant in an adoption file. The contents of the adoption file are not a public record and shall be made available only in accordance with section 3705.126 of the Revised Code. The department promptly shall forward a copy of a new birth record in an applicant's adopted name that is prepared under this section to the local registrar of vital statistics of the district in which the applicant's birth occurred. The local registrar shall file the copy along with, and in the same manner as, the other copies of birth records in the registrar's possession. All copies of the applicant's original birth record or the birth record issued in the applicant's adopted name before January 1, 1964, that is being replaced, and all other papers, documents, and index references pertaining to it that are in the possession of the local registrar or a probate court shall be destroyed, except that the probate court shall retain permanently in the file of adoption proceedings information that is necessary to enable the court to identify both the applicant's original birth record or birth record issued in the applicant's adopted name before January 1, 1964, that is being replaced, and the new birth record in the applicant's adopted name that is prepared pursuant to this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 3705.125 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3705 | Vital Statistics|Section 3705.125 | Prima Facie Evidence.

Effective: March 20, 2015|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 23 - 130th General Assembly|A new birth record or foreign birth record, and any certified or exact copy of the new birth record or foreign birth record, when properly authenticated by a duly authorized person, shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and places of the facts stated in the new birth record or foreign birth record.
Ohio Rev Code § 3705.126 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3705 | Vital Statistics|Section 3705.126 | Confidentiality.

Effective: March 20, 2015|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 23 - 130th General Assembly|The department of health shall neither open an adoption file nor make its contents available except as follows: (A) The department shall inspect the file to determine the court involved for the purpose of division (D) of section 3107.09 or section 3107.091 or 3107.171 of the Revised Code.(B) The department shall make the file's contents available to an adopted person or lineal descendant of an adopted person in accordance with section 3107.38 of the Revised Code.(C) The department shall open the file to transfer releases to the file in accordance with section 3107.381 of the Revised Code.(D) The department shall open the file to file a contact preference form from a biological parent pursuant to section 3107.39 of the Revised Code and remove any previously filed contact preference form from the biological parent.(E) The department shall open the file to file a biological parent's name redaction request form pursuant to division (C) of section 3107.391 of the Revised Code or to remove and destroy the form pursuant to division (D) of that section.(F) The department shall open the file to file a denial of release form under division (A) of section 3107.46 of the Revised Code or an authorization of release form under division (B) of that section.(G) The department shall make the file's contents available to an adopted person or adoptive parent in accordance with section 3107.47 of the Revised Code.(H) The department shall open the file to file a request from an adopted person under division (A) of section 3107.48 of the Revised Code or to remove and destroy the request pursuant to division (B) of that section.(I) The department shall inspect the file to assist a birth parent or birth sibling in finding the adopted person's name by adoption in accordance with section 3107.49 of the Revised Code.(J) The court that decreed the adoption may order that the contents be made open for inspection or available for copying.