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LA Rev Stat § 40:52 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§52. Permit for removal, burial, cremation, or other disposition of body for a death in state; requirements to obtain death certificate before removing body out of the continental United States

RS 52 - Permit for removal, burial, cremation, or other disposition of body for a death in state; requirements to obtain death certificate before removing body out of the continental United States  When a death or spontaneous fetal death (stillbirth) occurs in this state or when a dead human body is found, the deceased, stillborn child, or dead human body shall not be interred, deposited in a vault or tomb, removed from the state, cremated, or otherwise disposed of until a burial transit permit has been issued by a local registrar. However, a dead human body shall not be removed from the continental United States until a burial transit permit has been issued and a death certificate has been completed by the parish coroner or a physician as required in R.S. 40:34.10(19).  Acts 1979, No. 776, §1; Acts 2003, No. 657, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:53 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§53. Foreign permits; death outside state

RS 53 - Foreign permits; death outside state  When the death or spontaneous fetal death (stillbirth) occurred outside this state and the body is accompanied by a permit for burial, removal, or other disposition issued in accordance with the law and the regulations in force at the place where the death or stillbirth occurred, the body may be transported into or through this state. However, before the interment, cremation, or other disposal of the body within the state, the out of state permit shall be endorsed by the local registrar. The local registrar shall keep an appropriate record of all such permits endorsed by him.  Acts 1979, No. 776, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:54 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§54. Prerequisites for permit

RS 54 - Prerequisites for permit  A permit shall be issued for burial within the state, for interment in a vault or tomb, for removal from the state, for scientific use, cremation, or other disposition without the necessity of a completed death certificate. However, no permit for the disposition by removal from the continental United States shall be issued by a local registrar until a certificate of death or stillbirth, has been completed by the parish coroner or a physician as required in R.S. 40:34.10(19), and has been filed with a local registrar. No permit may be issued unless and until all the regulations of the Louisiana Department of Health in respect to the issuance of the permit have been complied with. No permit shall be issued which would be contrary to the sanitary laws of the state.  Acts 1979, No. 776, §1; Acts 2003, No. 657, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:55 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§55. Marriage certificate; compulsory registration of marriages

RS 55 - Marriage certificate; compulsory registration of marriages  The marriage certificate is the record prepared for every marriage on a form approved by the state registrar. It shall contain the information prescribed. On the face of the certificate shall appear the certification to the fact of marriage, signed by the parties to the marriage and by the witnesses, and the signature and title of the officiant.  Every officiant of a marriage ceremony performed in this state shall sign a certificate of marriage in triplicate.  Acts 1979, No. 776, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:56 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§56. Repealed by Acts 1987, No. 886, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 1988.

RS 56 - Repealed by Acts 1987, No. 886, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 1988.
LA Rev Stat § 40:57 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§57. Divorce certificate; registration of divorces and annulments

RS 57 - Divorce certificate; registration of divorces and annulments  For every divorce and every annulment of marriage decreed by any court, the clerk of the court shall prepare, within ten days after the decree becomes final, from the court records, a certificate of the decree on forms furnished by the state registrar.  On or before the fifteenth day of each calendar month, the clerk shall forward the certificates which were prepared by him during the preceding calendar month to the state registrar.  Acts 1979, No. 776, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:58 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§58. Fee of clerk of court for divorce and annulment report

RS 58 - Fee of clerk of court for divorce and annulment report  Every clerk of court acting under the previous Section shall receive a fee for each certificate prepared and forwarded by him to the state registrar. This fee shall be included and collected as court costs for the divorce or annulment.  Acts 1979, No. 776, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:59 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§59. Delayed or altered certificates; allowed subject to department regulations

RS 59 - Delayed or altered certificates; allowed subject to department regulations   The acceptance for filing by the state registrar of any certificate more than six months after the time prescribed for its filing and any alteration of any certificate after it is filed with the state registrar is subject to regulations in which the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health shall prescribe in detail the proofs to be submitted by any applicant for delayed filing or for an alteration of a certificate. Notwithstanding regulations of the department regarding the proofs necessary for the alteration of a certificate, the state registrar shall permit alteration or correction of information supplied by the informant with the exception of the name of the surviving spouse on a death certificate within one year from the date of death. This shall not apply to typographical errors in the name of the spouse. Other errors may be corrected upon presentation of an affidavit stating the errant information and the correction thereto and bearing the signature of the informant, or if unavailable the signature of a member of the immediate family, unless the information was taken from hospital or other records, in which case, an affidavit executed by a member of immediate or surviving family of the deceased shall be sufficient. After one year from the date of death, all alterations and corrections shall comply with departmental regulations promulgated pursuant to this Section.  Acts 1979, No. 776, §1; Acts 1987, No. 360, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:61 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§61. Penalties

RS 61 - Penalties A. A fine of not more than ten thousand dollars or imprisonment of not more than five years, or both, shall be imposed on: (1) Any person who willfully and knowingly makes any false statement in a certificate, record, or report required by this Chapter, or in an application for a certified copy of a vital record, or who willfully and knowingly supplies false information intending that such information be used in the preparation of any such report, record, or certificate, or amendment thereof; or (2) Any person who without lawful authority and with the intent to deceive, makes, counterfeits, alters, amends, or mutilates any certificate, record, or report required by this Chapter or a certified copy of such certificate, record, or report; or (3) Any person who willfully and knowingly obtains, possesses, uses, sells, furnishes, or attempts to obtain, possess, use, sell, or furnish to another, for any purpose of deception, any certificate, record, or report required by this Chapter or certified copy thereof so made, counterfeited, altered, amended, or mutilated, or which is false in whole or in part or which relates to the birth of another person, whether living or deceased; or (4) In addition to dismissal proceedings pursuant to state civil service regulations, any employee of the vital records registry or office of public health who willfully and knowingly furnishes or processes a certificate of birth or death, or certified copy of a certificate of birth or death, or discloses information contained in a certificate of birth or death, with the knowledge or intention that it be used for the purposes of deception. (5) Any person who without lawful authority possesses any certificate, record, or report, required by this Chapter or a copy or certified copy of such certificate, record, or report knowing same to have been stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained. B. A fine of not more than one thousand dollars or imprisonment of not more than one year, or both, shall be imposed on: (1) Any person who willfully and knowingly refuses to provide information required by this Chapter or regulations adopted hereunder; or (2) Any person who willfully and knowingly transports or accepts for removal, interment, or other disposition a dead body without an accompanying permit as provided in this Chapter; or (3) Any person who willfully and knowingly neglects or violates any of the provisions of this Chapter or refuses to perform any of the duties imposed upon him or her by this Chapter. Acts 1979, No. 776, §1; Acts 1986, No. 876, §1; Acts 2004, No. 254, §1; Acts 2013, No. 220, §17, eff. June 11, 2013.
LA Rev Stat § 40:62 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§62. Issuance of new birth certificate after anatomical change of sex by surgery

RS 62 - Issuance of new birth certificate after anatomical change of sex by surgery  A. Any person born in Louisiana who has sustained sex reassignment or corrective surgery which has changed the anatomical structure of the sex of the individual to that of a sex other than that which appears on the original birth certificate of the individual, may petition a court of competent jurisdiction as provided in this Section to obtain a new certificate of birth.  B. Suits authorized by this Section shall be filed contradictorily against the state registrar in the judicial district court having jurisdiction over the parish in which the petitioner resides or over the parish in which the petitioner was born. A nonresident born in Louisiana shall file the petition in the parish of birth. The suit of any petitioner born in Louisiana shall be filed contradictorily against the state registrar. In the event the petitioner is married, the spouse shall also be a necessary party to the suit. To the extent that the petitioner's name is to be changed, the district attorney shall also be a necessary party. In all cases the petition shall be accompanied by a certified copy of the petitioner's original birth record, in which case the short-form birth certificate card shall not be sufficient.  C. The court shall require such proof as it deems necessary to be convinced that the petitioner was properly diagnosed as a transsexual or pseudo-hermaphrodite, that sex reassignment or corrective surgery has been properly performed upon the petitioner, and that as a result of such surgery and subsequent medical treatment the anatomical structure of the sex of the petitioner has been changed to a sex other than that which is stated on the original birth certificate of the petitioner.  If the court shall find that the evidence sustains the required proof, the court shall render a judgment ordering the issuance of a new birth certificate changing the sex designated thereon from that shown upon the petitioner's original certificate of birth. The petitioner may in the same suit seek to have the name of the petitioner changed, and the court may render judgment in accordance with law upon this additional petition at the same time.  D.(1) A certified copy of the petition and judgment for a new certificate pursuant to this Section shall be furnished to the state registrar of vital records at New Orleans within ten days after the judgment is rendered. The registrar shall issue to the petitioner a new certificate or certified copy thereof; whereupon the original birth certificate and the copy of the petition and judgment received by the registrar shall be sealed in a package and filed in the archives of the vital records registry.  (2) This sealed package shall be opened only upon demand of the individual to whom the new certificate was issued, and then only by order of the court which rendered the judgment ordering the issuance of the new certificate. Acts 1979, No. 776, §1; Acts 1986, No. 876, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:62.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§62.1. Issuance of new birth certificate for child with mistaken sex designation on original birth record

RS 62.1 - Issuance of new birth certificate for child with mistaken sex designation on original birth record  A. Where a child's sex designation and consequently the child's first or given name is erroneously recorded at the time of birth on an original birth certificate, the state registrar may prepare a new certificate with a proper sex designation and allow the child's first or given name to be changed when the parent or parents of the child, or in the absence of a parent, the person legally responsible for the child, requests a new birth certificate and presents competent medical evidence in the form of affidavits from two or more physicians certifying and establishing by medical diagnosis that the original erroneous sex designation was due to a hereditary genetic defect or hormone deficiency, including but not limited to congenital adrenal hyperplasia or a related condition, and not due to sexual reassignment or major corrective surgery as contemplated in R.S. 40:62.  B. Upon the issuance of a new birth certificate, the child's original birth certificate together with the affidavits and related evidence received by the state registrar shall be sealed in a package or envelope and filed in the archives of the vital records registry. This sealed package or envelope shall be opened only upon the demand of a parent, or other person legally responsible for the child in the absence of a parent, or the individual registrant, after emancipation or reaching the age of majority, and then only by order of a court of competent jurisdiction in the parish wherein the vital records registry is legally domiciled.  Added by Acts 1981, No. 657, §1. Acts 1986, No. 876, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:63 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§63. Abortion, induced termination of pregnancy; purpose

RS 63 - Abortion, induced termination of pregnancy; purpose  The purpose of this Part shall be the compilation of relevant maternal life and health factors and data concerning abortions which may be used in the improvement of maternal health and life. The further purpose and function of this Part shall be to serve as a monitor on all induced terminations of pregnancies performed in the state of Louisiana to assure that they are performed only in accordance with the provisions of law.  Acts 1979, No. 776, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:64 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§64. Forms for collection of data

RS 64 - Forms for collection of data  The state registrar shall prescribe forms for the collection of information and statistics with respect to abortions. Such forms shall require, but not be limited to, the following information:  (1) The age, marital status, and state and parish (county) of residence of the woman who is aborted.  (2) The place where the abortion is performed.  (3) The full name and address of the physician or physicians performing the abortion.  (4) The age, marital status, and state and parish (county) of residence of the father, if known.  (5) Medical reason for the abortion.  (6) Medical procedure employed to procure the abortion.  (7) The length of the aborted fetus.  (8) The weight of the aborted fetus.  (9) Other significant conditions of the fetus and mother.  (10) The results of pathological examinations of all aborted fetuses, as required by R.S. 40:1061.13.  Acts 1979, No. 776, §1; Acts 1986, No. 876, §1; Acts 2018, No. 206, §4.
LA Rev Stat § 40:65 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§65. Completion of forms; filing with vital records registry

RS 65 - Completion of forms; filing with vital records registry The information required by the form for which provision is made in R.S. 40:64 shall be completed by the physician or physicians performing the abortion in each case in which an abortion is performed. Such completed form shall be transmitted by the physician or physicians to the vital records registry within fifteen days of the performing of such abortion. Acts 1979, No. 776, §1. Amended by Acts 1986, No. 876, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:66 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§66. Failure to complete form; penalty

RS 66 - Failure to complete form; penalty Failure to complete such form as required in R.S. 40:65 shall be a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for ninety days in jail or by a five hundred dollar fine, or both. Such failure to complete such form and to timely transmit same shall be admissible as evidence that the unreported abortion was illegal. Acts 1979, No. 776, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:67 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§67. Persons over twelve years of age; establishment of birth record

RS 67 - Persons over twelve years of age; establishment of birth record  Any person born in Louisiana who is over twelve years of age and who has no birth record on file with the vital records registry may establish a birth record through the district courts of the various parishes of the state provided he cannot otherwise meet the requirements for obtaining a delayed birth registration.  Acts 1979, No. 776, §1; Acts 1986, No. 876, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:68 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§68. Petition

RS 68 - Petition  The suit shall be filed contradictorily against the state registrar either in the parish of residence or the parish of birth. Persons born in Louisiana and residing outside the state must file suit in the parish of birth. The petition shall be accompanied by a letter from the vital records registry bearing the raised imprint of the seal of the state and the letter shall be made a part of the suit and shall state to the effect that the petitioner has no record on file.  Acts 1979, No. 776, §1. Acts 1986, No. 876, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:69 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§69. Proof required

RS 69 - Proof required  The court shall require such proof as it deems necessary to be convinced of the true birth facts of the petitioner such as full name of registrant at birth, birth date, city or town and parish of birth, sex, race, mother's maiden name and father's name, also parents' birth places. Persons who have had their names changed by court order prior to filing the suit to establish a delayed certificate of birth must file a certified copy of the judgment ordering the change of name together with the petition and the letter from the registration authority.  Acts 1979, No. 776, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:70 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§70. Copy of petition and judgment to registrar

RS 70 - Copy of petition and judgment to registrar  A certified copy of the petition and judgment for a delayed certificate of birth shall be furnished to the state registrar of vital records within ten days after the judgment is rendered.  Acts 1979, No. 776, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:71 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§71. Issuance of copy

RS 71 - Issuance of copy  All certified copies of such delayed birth registration shall be issued by the state registrar.  Acts 1979, No. 776, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:72 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§72. Record of adoptions prior to July 27, 1938

RS 72 - Record of adoptions prior to July 27, 1938  When a person who was born in Louisiana and who was adopted prior to July 27, 1938, or when any person, who adopted prior to July 27, 1938, any person born in Louisiana, by observing the legal requirements for adoption in Louisiana existing at the time of the adoption, presents the original or a certified copy of the birth certificate of the adopted person and a certified copy of a final judgment decreeing the adoption or the notarial act of adoption, in accordance with the legal requirements existing on the date of the judgment or act of adoption, the state registrar shall make a record showing:  (1) The date of birth of the person adopted.  (2) The new name of the person adopted, if his name was changed in accordance with law; and  (3) The names and addresses of the adoptive parents and any other data about them that is available and adds to the completeness of the new certificate of the adopted person.  Acts 1979, No. 776, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:73 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§73. Certified copy of the new record; sealing and confidentiality of the original birth record

RS 73 - Certified copy of the new record; sealing and confidentiality of the original birth record  A. Upon completion of the new record provided for in R.S. 40:72, the state registrar shall issue to the adopted person or to the adoptive parents a certified copy of the new record and shall place the original birth certificate and the copy of the judgment or the copy of the act of adoption in a sealed package and shall file the package in the archives of the vital records registry.  B. This sealed package shall be opened only upon the demand of the adopted person, or if deceased, by his or her descendants, or upon the demand of the adoptive parent, or the state registrar, or the recognized public or private social agency which was a party to the adoption, and then only by order of a Louisiana court of competent jurisdiction at the domicile of the vital records registry, which order shall issue only after a showing of compelling reasons. Information shall be revealed only to the extent necessary to satisfy such compelling necessity.  C. In satisfying the requirement that information shall be revealed only to the extent necessary to satisfy the compelling necessity shown, the court is further authorized to use the services of the curator ad hoc appointment pursuant to Article 5091.2 of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure.  D. All motions for records under this Section shall be in accordance with and subject to the provisions of Children's Code Articles 1188 through 1192 and, if an adoption agency is involved, the agency shall be served with a copy of the motion as provided in Article 1313 of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure.  Acts 1992, No. 705, §2, eff. July 6, 1992; Acts 1993, No. 634, §4, eff. June 15, 1993.
LA Rev Stat § 40:74 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§74. Report of annulments of adoption

RS 74 - Report of annulments of adoption  The clerk of court shall prepare, within ten days after the decree becomes final, from the court records, a certificate of every decree of annulment of adoption on forms furnished by the state registrar. On or before the fifteenth day of each month, the clerk shall forward the certificates prepared by him during the preceding calendar month to the state registrar.  Upon receipt of a court order of annulment of an adoption registered in his office, the state registrar shall restore the original certificate to its original place in the files.  Acts 1979, No. 776, §1.