Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 048 - Health, Department of › Sub-Agency 0059 - Vital Records Services › Chapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 1-2 - Definitions

Current through July 13, 2024
The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation
				  and enforcement of these rules.
(a)
				"Attendant at birth" means the person who assists the mother in giving
				birth.
(b) "Certificate" means a
				form provided by Vital Statistics Services for the registration of a birth,
				death, stillbirth, marriage, divorce or foreign-born adoption.
(c) "Certified copy," means any reproduction
				of a vital record bearing the seal of Vital Statistics Services and the
				signature of the State Registrar or of a designated representative, or the
				authorized facsimile thereof.
(d)
				"Certifier" means the person who signs the certificate attesting to the time,
				date, place of the birth or cause of death.
(e) "Court of competent jurisdiction" means a
				Wyoming district court, a court of comparable jurisdiction in another state, or
				a federal or tribal court.
(f)
				"Conformed copy" means a clerk stamped copy of the exact copy of an original
				document that was filed with a clerk. The clerk may not certify conformed
				copies of vital records.
(g)
				"Delayed certificate" means a certificate of a birth, death or marriage
				registered one year or more after the date of the occurrence, which is prepared
				and filed by the State Registrar.
(h) "Deputy local registrar" means the person
				appointed by the State Registrar or designee to perform the duties of the local
				registrar in the absence or incapacity of the local registrar.
(i) "Documentary evidence" means an original,
				official, or legal paper, which is used to furnish proof for correcting a
				certificate or for establishing a delayed certificate. It includes, but is not
				limited to census, hospital, and school records.
(j) "Form" means any document with blanks for
				the insertion of details or information, supplied or approved by Vital
				Statistics Services for use in the vital records system.
(k) "Foundling" means a living child of
				unknown parentage, also known as a "safe haven" child.
(l) "Health care facility" means any
				establishment, public or private, which provides in-patient or outpatient
				medical care.
(m) "Immediate
				family" means the mother, father, child or spouse of the deceased
				person.
(n) "Informant" means the
				person supplying the personal information regarding the registrant required by
				a birth or death certificate.
(o)
				"Legal age" means the statutory age of majority.
(p) "Legal parents" means those parents
				recognized as such under law.
(q)
				"Local registrar" means the person appointed by the State Registrar to promote
				and supervise vital registration in his assigned registration
				district.
(r) "Natural father"
				means the biological father.
(s)
				"Natural parents" means, the biological parents.
(t) "Next of kin" means the surviving spouse
				of the decedent, or if there is no surviving spouse, the closest living
				relative.
(u) "Personal
				particulars" means any of the following items required on a birth certificate:
				parent's state of birth, parent's date of birth, parent's age at the time of
				the child's birth, mother's residence.
(v) "Registrant" means the person to whom the
				certificate pertains.
(w)
				"Registration" means the acceptance by Vital Statistics Services and the
				incorporation in its official records of certificates of births, deaths,
				stillbirths, marriages, and divorces.
(x) "System of vital records" includes the
				registration, collection, preservation, amendment, and certification of vital
				records and activities related thereto including the tabulation, analysis, and
				publication of statistical data derived from such records.
(y) "True copy" means a copy of a document
				that is authenticated to be an official copy of the original.
(z) "Vital records" means certificates of
				birth, death, stillbirth, marriage, and divorce; other forms used in the vital
				records system; and data relating thereto.
(aa) "Vital Statistics Services" means the
				state office established by the Department of Health to operate the system of
				vital records throughout the state.