Alaska Administrative Code

The local registrar of any registration district containing scattered villages inaccessible to direct supervision by the local registrar in person may, with the approval of the State Registrar, designate one person in any such village as sub-registrar of vital statistics for such…

Only those district magistrates and deputy magistrates designated by the Alaska Court System and the State Registrar as recorders of vital records shall have the powers and duties of recording vital statistics records. This shall involve the recording of all vital statistics reco…

Each recording magistrate shall keep a complete file of the recorded copies of all certificates of birth, death, fetal death, and marriage occurring within his recording district. Such file shall be separate from other records filed or recorded in the office. The records shall be…

The recording magistrate shall not make any changes, corrections, deletions, or amendments on any vital record, copy or original, except in accordance with these regulations and the instructions of the State Registrar. Notes 7 AAC 05.210 In effect before 7/28/59; am 7/25/60, Regi…

The recording magistrate shall issue certified copies, partial copies, verifications, or other information from any individual vital statistics record only in accordance with the Vital Statistics Act and regulations and instructions issued thereunder. The fees to be charged by th…

The clerk of each superior court shall make such reports, and complete and forward such records and certificates as are required by the Vital Statistics Act, related laws, regulations, and instructions. Among others, such reportable court actions shall include decrees of adoption…

The clerk of each superior court shall promptly inform the bureau of all appointments and terminations thereof made by the court to the following positions, and including the necessary supplementary data as requested by the State Registrar to enable the bureau to properly carry o…

Officials required to transmit certificates, forms, reports, or other returns required under the Vital Statistics Act, related laws, regulations, or instructions shall do so monthly or oftener as directed by the State Registrar, promptly on or about the date so directed. If at al…

Each sub-registrar shall forward for filing with the local registrar within whose registration district he is located, all original birth, fetal death, and death certificates completed since the last transmittal. A transmittal list furnished by the bureau, properly filled out in …

Each marriage commissioner shall forward any original certificates of marriage completed, duplicate marriage license docket sheets prepared, and recording fees collected since the last transmittal to the proper recording magistrate for each recording district within which he has …

Each local registrar who is not a recording magistrate shall forward to the recording magistrate of the recording district within which he is located all original certificates of birth, fetal death, death, and marriage filed with him since his last transmittal. These shall includ…

Each recording magistrate shall transmit to the bureau all original certificates and other required forms, reports, and returns for his recording district since his last transmittal. Such transmittal shall include the original certificates forwarded to him by marriage commissione…

Monthly the State Registrar shall certify the necessary information to the Department of Administration to secure the payment of the fees specified in the Vital Statistics Act to those local registrars, deputy local registrars, and sub-registrars entitled thereto. Notes 7 AAC 05.…

A certificate for each birth, death, fetal death, and marriage occurring within Alaska shall be recorded in the recording district within which the event occurred, irrespective of residence of the parties involved. The person so responsible shall prepare and file such certificate…

All certificates shall be prepared on the forms prescribed by the bureau, neatly and legibly typewritten or written with black or blue-black unfading ink wherever possible. Erasures or other eradications, or complete deletions shall not be made on certificates. When an error is m…

Only one original certificate shall be made for each event, except as otherwise authorized by the State Registrar. Such original shall contain the required signatures and shall be filed, recorded, and forwarded to the bureau for registration. In the case of hospitals, other insti…

All questions on the certificate shall be answered as completely and accurately as possible. If certain information is unobtainable, "Unknown" should be entered in the space provided. To insure that each certificate filed is an adequate legal record, a certain minimum of informat…

All required signatures for certifications shall be the actual signature of such person, signed with black or blue-black unfading ink wherever possible. Whenever a signature is required of a person who cannot write, he shall make his mark in lieu of such signature, and it shall b…

A certificate of birth shall be filed with the local registrar of the registration district in which the birth occurred for each live birth occurring within Alaska within seven days after such birth, unless an extension of time is granted under secs. 550 - 570 of this chapter. Th…

When a birth occurs in an institution, the person in charge of the institution shall be responsible for seeing that the certificate is prepared, signed, and filed with the local registrar. When a birth occurs outside an institution, the following shall be the order of responsibil…

Whoever assumes the custody of a living infant of unknown parentage shall be responsible for preparing and filing a certificate of birth, in accordance with the Vital Statistics Act and the instructions of the State Registrar. Notes 7 AAC 05.380 In effect before 7/28/59; am 7/25/…

If the mother is married, the husband shall be entered on the certificate as father unless a determination of paternity has been made to the contrary by a superior court. If the mother is not married, the father shall not be entered on the certificate unless a determination of pa…

A certificate shall be filed with the local registrar of the registration district within which such event occurred for each death occurring in this state within three days after death, and for each fetal death where delivery occurred in this state within three days of delivery; …

The funeral director or person acting as a funeral director who assumes custody of a dead body or fetus for final disposition shall file the certificate. If the death or delivery occurs in an institution, the person in charge of the institution shall file the certificate in the a…

The medical certification shall be completed and signed within 24 hours after death or delivery, by the physician in charge during the illness or condition that resulted in death or in attendance at or after delivery, except when an official inquiry or inquest is necessary or an …

In cases when a physician is responsible for the medical certification of cause of death, a proper and complete cause of death statement shall contain a definite medical diagnosis of the cause of death, using standard nomenclature, in accordance with the general instructions of t…

If a question of foul play exists regarding the death, a person may not accept a death or fetal death certificate for filing or recording, issue a burial-transit permit, or otherwise move or allow a body to be moved or molested without permission for the state medical examiner. I…

Any product of gestation of less than 20 weeks duration of pregnancy, showing no evidence of life, may have a fetal death certificate prepared, filed, recorded, and registered as required above, at the option of the parents or others concerned; such certificate is not mandatory f…

(a) A dead body or fetus of 20 weeks or more gestation may not be finally disposed of, or removed from the state, until a burial-transit permit has been issued by the proper local registrar or other agent duly authorized by the state registrar. A burial-transit permit shall be ob…

(a) The funeral director, or person acting as such, who assumes custody of a dead body or fetus for final disposition is responsible for obtaining the burial-transit permit. For the purpose of this section, the person who assumes custody includes a person moving, or causing to be…

A burial-transit permit shall be issued by the local registrar of the registration district where death (or delivery) occurred, upon the presentation for filing of a satisfactory certificate of death or fetal death, completed in accordance with the instructions of the State Regis…

Such burial-transit permit duly issued in this state, or a burial-transit permit issued in another state or Canada and accompanying a dead body or fetus shipped into this state, shall be authority for: (1) final disposition of such body or fetus; (2) shipment out of the state, of…

Under emergency conditions, including to ensure the protection of the body from loss or destruction, or to avoid long delays when transportation is immediately available but otherwise irregular, and if a question of foul play or suicide requiring an official investigation does no…

Except as provided in 7 AAC 05.460(b), a carrier may not accept for shipment any body or fetus unless accompanied by a proper burial-transit permit, and unless all other shipping requirements are fulfilled; if in an emergency and under the conditions specified in 7 AAC 05.500, or…

The sexton, or any other person in charge of a cemetery or other burial grounds, or the owner of any land shall not permit the burial therein of any dead body or fetus unless it is accompanied by a proper burial-transit permit; provided that certain exceptions may be made for a f…

A burial-transit permit may be issued by a local registrar for the disposition of a fetus with a gestation period of less than 20 weeks, with or without the filing of a fetal death certificate; provided all other requirements have been met. For movement out of the state; for any …

No body shall be disinterred for removal to another cemetery, or removed from a permanent vault for movement to another location, without a permit issued by the recording magistrate of the recording district within which the body is located, in accordance with the instructions of…

One of the primary purposes of the Vital Statistics Act is to insure that each vital statistics event is registered, completely and accurately, at the time the event occurs, and in an orderly and logical fashion; and that such certificates are collected and preserved in a central…

Local registrars are authorized, under the conditions set forth herein, to grant an extension of time for the filing of certain certificates and the obtaining of certain permits for events which occurred within their registration district, in cases where it is evident that a hard…

In case the proper local registrar cannot be contacted in time, the application for extension of time may be made to the recording magistrate of the recording district within which the event occurred, or to one of the district magistrates of the same judicial district. Under the …

A certificate of marriage for each marriage performed within Alaska shall be filed with the local registrar of the registration district in which the marriage was performed within seven days after such marriage; provided that for marriages performed by a duly appointed marriage c…

The person solemnizing the marriage shall be responsible for completing the certificate, obtaining the necessary signatures, and filing it, in accordance with the instructions of the bureau. In case a religious validation ceremony follows a civil ceremony between the same two par…

No person shall solemnize a marriage in Alaska unless a license therefor has been fully issued within Alaska by a magistrate or a marriage commissioner. Local registrars, deputy local registrars, sub-registrars, and any other local officials appointed or designated in accordance …

All necessary steps preliminary to the issuance of a marriage license must be completed before such license is issued, in accordance with the instructions issued jointly by the bureau and the Alaska Court System. All forms used shall be those prescribed and furnished by the Burea…

The person performing the marriage ceremony, at the time he completes the original certificate of marriage, shall also complete two copies of the certification thereon, on the prescribed forms, giving them to the bride and groom to keep. He shall keep the marriage license in his …

A certificate of divorce or annulment shall be filed with the bureau for each divorce or annulment of marriage granted within Alaska, on or before the 10th day of the month following the month in which such decree was granted. The certificate form shall be prescribed by the State…

The clerk of court shall be responsible for completing and filing a certificate for each such decree. The information necessary shall be furnished the court by the plaintiff, on a form furnished by the bureau. The clerk shall supply the additional required information relating to…