it S 5 registrar for births, and shall receive, without fee or charge. Duty of each certificate of birth and enter the same in the same man- officer. ner as provided for the county recorder; to enter the same in separate registers to be known as the "Register of Marriages," and the "Register of Births," in separate columns, properly headed, the various facts contained in the certificates and the name and official or clerical position of the person making the report. The recorder or health officer must carefully examine each report, and register the same marriage, or birth but once, although it may be reported by different persons. The certificates shall be numbered by him and entered in the order in which they are reported to him. On or before the fifth day of each month each recorder, or health officer, shall transmit by United States mail, Report to carefully inclosed in appropriate envelopes or wrappers, trar by addressed to the state registrar at Sacramento, or shall and local personally deliver to him at his office in Sacramento, on or officer. before the fifth day of each month, the original certificates of births and marriages filed with him during the preceding original month, and shall accompany said certificates with a brief certificates statement of the number of such certificates, and the dates riages and of their receipt. The state registrar shall thereupon file filing of. said original certificates of marriage and births, and cause the same to be separately and systematically indexed. (As amended, Stats. 1905, Ch. CX.) § 3079. For their services as required by section 3078 of this code, county recorders, or health officers of cities having a freeholders charter, shall, in addition to their compensation for the other duties of their office, be allowed by the board of supervisors, ten cents for each name registered and reported to the state registrar, which sum shall be paid out of the general fund of the county upon warrants issued quarterly and signed by the county auditor and approved by the state registrar, which warrants shall specify the number of certificates of marriages and births properly registered and filed with the state registrar. (As amended, Stats. 1905, Ch. CX.) state regis recorder health of mar births, Fee of recorder and health officer. trar to pre pare blank instruc § 3080. The state registrar shall prepare a sample form State regisand blank for use in registering, recording and preserving the reports of marriages and births, and shall prepare and form and issue such detailed instructions as may be required to tions. secure the uniform observance of its provisions and the maintenance of a perfect system of registration, and no other forms of blanks shall be used than those prescribed by the state registrar. Printed blanks in the form pre- Supervisscribed by the state registrar for the registration of mar- furnish riages and births shall be furnished to each recorder or blanks. health officer by the board of supervisors of each county Recorder or city and county in sufficient quantities, and each recorder and health or health officer shall furnish without charge a sufficient furnish number of copies to each applicant upon whom is imposed blanks to ors to printed officer to applicants. 6 State regis. trar may further in Information to be furnished state registrar on demand. required the duty of certifying to a marriage or birth. (As amended, Stats. 1905, Ch. CX.) § 3081. The state registrar shall carefully examine the require certificates of marriages and births received monthly from formation. the county recorders or health officers, and if any such are incomplete or unsatisfactory, he shall require such further information to be furnished as may be necessary to make the record satisfactory. All physicians, clergymen, judges, midwives, nurses, parents, or other informants upon whom the duty is imposed of certifying to marriages or births, and all other persons having knowledge of the facts, are required to furnish such information as they may possess regarding any marriage or birth upon demand of the state registrar, in person by mail or through the local recorder. Deposition Whenever it may be alleged that the facts are not correctly when facts stated in any certificate of marriage or birth theretofore registered, the county recorder shall require a deposition under oath to be made by the person asserting the fact, to be supported by the depositions of two or more credible persons having knowledge of the facts, setting forth the change necessary to make the record correct. Having received such depositions, he shall file them and shall then draw a line through the incorrect statement or statements in the certificate, without erasing them, and make the necessary corrections, noting on the margin of the certificate his authority for so doing, and transmit the deposition, attached to the original certificate, when making his regular monthly returns to the state registrar. If the correction relates to a certificate previously returned to the state registrar, he shall Corrected transmit the deposition forthwith to the state registrar. are not correctly stated. state ments. Penalty for failure to perform duty. State regis trar to furnish certified copy of records. If the correction is first made upon the original certificate on file in the state bureau of vital statistics, the state registrar shall immediately transmit a certified copy of the original certificate, corrected as above, to the county recorder, who shall thereupon substitute such certified copy for the copy of the certificate in his records. All such corrections and marginal notes referring to them shall be legibly written in ink, typewritten or printed. (As amended, Stats. 1905, Ch. CX.) § 3082. Any officer or person upon whom a duty is imposed under this chapter who fails, neglects or refuses to perform any of the duties imposed upon him under this chapter or by the instructions and directions of the state. registrar shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished in the same manner as other misdemeanors provided in the Penal Code. (As amended, Stats. 1905, Ch. CX.) § 3083. The state registrar shall upon request furnish any applicant a certified copy of the record of any marriage or birth registered under the provisions of this chapter, for the making and certification of which he shall be entitled to a fee of fifty cents to be paid by the applicant. Any such copy of the record of a marriage or birth when properly 7 certified by the state registrar to be a true copy thereof Certified shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and places of the facie facts therein stated. For any search of the files and records when no certified copy is made, the state registrar shall be entitled to a fee of fifty cents for each hour or fractional hour of time of search to be paid by the appli- cant. And the state registrar shall keep a true and correct account of all fees by him received under these provisions and shall deposit all fees with the state treasurer. (As In case death occurs without medical attendance. Undertaker responsible for certificate of death. Local registrar to supply blanks. Duty of local registrar. If interment be made in district where death occurred, duty Duty of sexton or other person in charge of burial ground. State registrar to prepare blank forms for all registrars. State registrar to furnish certified copy of records. Fees. Physicians and undertakers to register with local registrar. Penalties for neglect by attending physician, undertaker, registrars and violation of act by common carrier. SEC. 18. Local registrars charged with the enforcement of law. STATUTES 1905, CHAPTER CCCXLVI. SEC. 1. Duties of city clerk and recorder in relation to registration STATUTES 1905, CHAPTER CXIX.-An act for the registration of deaths, the issuance and registration of burial and disin- terment permits and the establishment of registration dis- tricts in counties, cities and counties, cities and incorporated towns, under the superintendence of the state bureau of vital statistics and prescribing the powers and duties of registrars, coroners, physicians, undertakers, sextons and The people of the State of California, represented in senate bureau of SECTION 1. That department of the state board of health State SEC. 2. That for the purposes of this act the state shall be divided into registration districts as follows: Each city and county, city, and incorporated town, and each county exclu- sive of the portion included within cities and incorporated towns, shall constitute a primary registration district. SEC. 3. That the recorder of each city and county, county, and the clerk of each city or incorporated town, shall be the local registrar in and for such primary registration district and shall perform all such duties of local registrar as hereinafter provided; provided however, that in cities having a freeholders charter the health officer shall act as local registrar and perform all the duties thereof. Each local registrar. registrar shall immediately appoint in writing, a deputy who shall be authorized to act in his stead in case of absence, death, illness or disability and when it may appear neces- sary for the convenience of the people in any county, the local registrar is hereby authorized with the approval of the state registrar of vital statistics to appoint one or more Subregis- proper and competent persons to act as subregistrars, who shall be authorized to receive certificates of death and to issue burial permits or removal permits in and for such portions of the county as may be designated. Each subreg- istrar shall note in legible writing over his signature the date each certificate of death was filed, and shall forthwith forward the certificate to the local registrar of the county, and in all cases before the eighth day of the following month; provided, that all subregistrars shall be subject to death filed. SEC. 4. That the body or remains of no person whose death occurs in the state shall be interred, deposited in a vault, grave or tomb, cremated, disinterred or otherwise disposed of, or removed from or into any registration dis- trict until a permit for burial, disinterment or removal shall have been properly issued by the registrar of the regis- tration district in which the death occurs. And no such Certificate burial or removal permit shall be issued by any registrar When side of state. Stillborn as deaths. SEC. 5. Stillborn children, or those dead at birth, shall be the attending physician or midwife, and shall state the cause SEC. 6. That the certificate of death shall be of the stand- (1) Place of death, including state, county, township or (4) Color or race-as white, black (negro or negro de- scent), Indian, Chinese, Japanese, or other. (5) Conjugal condition-as single, married, widowed, or (6) Date of birth, including the year, month, and day. (10) Birthplace of father; state or foreign country. (12) Birthplace of mother; state or foreign country. (13) Occupation; the occupation to be reported of any person who had any remunerative employment-women as (14) Signature and address of informant. (15) Date of death, including the year, month, and day. (16) Statement of medical attendance on decedent, fact and time of death, including the time last seen alive. (17) Cause of death, including the primary and immediate (18) Signature and address of physician or official making (19) Special information concerning deaths in hospitals (21) Date of burial or removal. (22) Signature and address of undertaker. (23) Official signature of registrar with date when cer- Certificate Contents. The certificate shall be written legibly in permanent black How made |