Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 500 - ILLINOIS VITAL RECORDS CODE › Section 500.10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Act" means the Vital Records Act.
"Adoption Act" means
				750 ILCS
				50.
"Affiant" means the person signing the correction form.
"Bona fide research" means research that uses scientific
				methods and analyses for the purpose of generating generalizable new knowledge
				and understanding, while abiding by all legal and ethical requirements and
				practices.
"Bona fide researcher" means a person with the formal
				education, professional expertise and experience to conduct bona fide
				research.
"Certificate" means an officially registered Certificate of
				Live Birth, Delayed Record of Birth, Medical Death, Medical
				Examiner's/Coroner's Death, or Fetal Death (Stillbirth).
"Certified court order", "court order", "appropriate court
				order", and "court determination" means a written order entered by a court of
				competent jurisdiction that is certified by the clerk of the court and dated,
				and that includes the full information required by the State Registrar to
				amend, correct, replace, impound, open or create a vital record without
				reference to any other document.
"Civil union" or "Marriage"
means a legal relationship
				between two persons with the same legal obligations, responsibilities,
				protections, and benefits
. The term "marriage" in this Part is
				interpreted as a synonym for civil union. (Section 10 of the Illinois Religious
				Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act)
"Correction" means the correction or amendment of a certificate
				to reflect the correct information at items where incorrect information was
				originally entered; or the addition of correct information for items previously
				omitted from the certificate. "Correction" does not mean to enter on the
				certificate facts or information different from those which existed at the time
				of the event.
"Correction form" means the standard correction form "Affidavit
				and Certificate of Correction" prescribed by the State Registrar.
"Court of competent jurisdiction" means any Circuit Court in
				Illinois, any United States District Court, any equivalent court in any state
				or United States territory, any tribal court of any of the Indian Nations
				located within the United States, and any State or federal appellate level
				court in the United States. "Court of competent jurisdiction" does not include
				any religious court or any administrative body or tribunal without general
				State or federal trial jurisdiction.
"Custodian" means the State Registrar of Vital Records, local
				registrars or county clerks.
"Delayed birth registration" means the registration of any
				birth that was not registered within three days after the event and
				includes:
the registration of a birth that occurred more than three days,
				but less than one year prior to the application for registration;
the registration of a birth that occurred more than one year,
				but less than seven years prior to the application for registration; and
the registration of a birth that occurred more than seven years
				prior to the application for registration.
"Department" means the Illinois Department of Public Health or
				its designated agent.
"Director" means the Director of the Illinois Department of
				Public Health or the Director's designee.
"District" means a specific geographic location in the State,
				for the purpose of registration of birth, death and fetal certificates.
"Final disposition" means the burial, cremation, or other
				disposition of a dead human body, fetus, or parts of a dead human body or
				fetus, including depositing in a vault or tomb, removal from the State, or use
				by a hospital or other institution for medical or scientific study in
				accordance with the Cadaver Act and Section 8 of the Uniform Anatomical Gift
				Act.
"Foundling" means a child found who was abandoned by a parent
				or parents whose identity is not known.
"Funeral director" means a person licensed by the State of
				Illinois to practice funeral directing, or a person acting under the direct
				supervision of an Illinois licensed funeral director as an employee or an
				associate of the funeral director.
"Gestational surrogacy" means the process by which a
				woman attempts to carry and give birth to a child created through in vitro
				fertilization using the gamete or gametes of at least one of the intended
				parents and to which the gestational surrogate has made no genetic
				contribution.
(Section 10 of the Gestational Surrogacy Act)
"Gestational surrogacy contract" means a written
				agreement regarding gestational surrogacy.
(Section 10 of the
				Gestational Surrogacy Act)
"Gestational surrogate" means a woman who agrees to
				engage in a gestational surrogacy.
(Section 10 of the Gestational
				Surrogacy Act)
"Intended parent" means a person or persons who enter
				into a gestational surrogacy contract with a gestational surrogate pursuant to
				which he or she will be the legal parent of the resulting child.
(Section 10 of the Gestational Surrogacy Act) The intended parent or parents
				can be married, in a civil union or single.
"Legal representative" refers to:
A licensed attorney-at-law acting on behalf of a person or
				persons named on a birth certificate;
an agent authorized by written power of attorney;
a court-appointed personal representative;
an agent with written, notarized authorization from a person or
				persons named on a birth certificate for the purpose of obtaining a certified
				copy for that person; or
any other agent, approved by the State Registrar as a legal
				representative of the person to whom the birth certificate relates.
"Local registrar" refers to an individual who is appointed by
				the State Registrar, administers and enforces the provisions of the Vital
				Records Act, requires that certificates be completed and filed in accordance
				with the provisions of the Vital Records Act, and prepares files and retains,
				for a period of at least 10 years, an accurate copy of each record of live
				birth, death and fetal death.
"Major correction" includes, but is not limited to, any
				correction made more than one year after the date of the occurrence, or a
				correction made within one year after the date of the occurrence relating to
				these items (except as provided in Section
				500.40(f)(3)(D))
				:
significant changes in the surname of the registered
				person;
on births, changes in the date or place of the
				occurrence;
the parent's or parents' age, if changed more than two
				years;
changes in the cause of death;
the identity of the parent or parents on the birth
				certificate;
changes in marital status;
the birth date or age of the decedent on a death certificate;
				or
other like circumstances.
Any other single item corrected within one year after the
				occurrence is considered a "minor correction".
"Minor correction" means any correction made within one year
				after the occurrence not meeting the criteria of a major correction.
"Personal services contract" means a contract between a unit of
				the State or local government body and an individual or a firm for the
				provision of services to the unit of the State or local government.
"Registration district" means a specific geographic location in
				the State, for the purpose of registration of birth, death and fetal
				certificates as described in
				410 ILCS
				535/6 of the Vital Records Act.
"State Registrar" means the State Registrar of Vital
				Records.
"Vital records" means records of births, deaths, fetal deaths,
				marriages, dissolution of marriages, and data related
				thereto.