Title 36 — Public Health and Safety

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Administrative order" means a written decision issued by an administrative law judge or quasi-judicial entity. 2. "Amend" means to make a change, other than a correction, to a registered certificate by adding, deleting o…

A. The director of the department is the state registrar of vital records. B. The state registrar of vital records shall: 1. Adopt rules to implement a statewide system of vital records pursuant to this chapter using the recommendations of the federal agency responsible for natio…

A. The department shall: 1. Administer and enforce this chapter and rules adopted pursuant to this chapter. 2. Provide for the efficient administration of a system of public health statistics. B. The department may adopt rules to implement a system of public health statistics pur…

A. The state registrar shall appoint the county health officer of the county health department as the local registrar for a registration district. If a county health department does not have a county health officer, the state registrar shall appoint an employee of the county heal…

A local registrar and deputy local registrar of a registration district shall: 1. Administer and enforce this chapter and rules adopted pursuant to this chapter. 2. Assist the state registrar in investigating violations of this chapter and rules adopted pursuant to this chapter. …

A. A deputy local registrar shall receive from the county general fund in that registration district one dollar for each birth certificate, death certificate or fetal death certificate registered by the deputy local registrar and submitted to the state registrar pursuant to this …

A. The state registrar shall prescribe by rule the information required to be submitted to create or amend a vital record. B. A person who submits a certificate for registration must make a reasonable effort to ensure that the information on the certificate is correct and accurat…

A. The state registrar shall seal a certificate and evidentiary documents when the state registrar amends the registered certificate. B. Unless required by a court order and except as provided in section 36-340, the state registrar shall not issue a copy of a certificate or other…

A. The state registrar shall amend a registered certificate pursuant to this chapter and rules adopted pursuant to this chapter. B. The state registrar shall amend a registered birth certificate to show the new name of a person born in this state if: 1. The person, the person's p…

B. A certified copy of a registered certificate has the same status as the registered certificate. C. The United States public health service may receive copies, microfilm and other information from the state registrar to prepare national vital statistics subject to the following…

A. Within seven calendar days after receiving possession of human remains, a funeral establishment or responsible person who takes possession of the human remains shall: 1. Obtain and complete the information, including the social security number of the decedent, on the death cer…

If a death occurs in this state and is not registered within one year after the date of the death, the local registrar, deputy local registrar or state registrar shall register the death certificate as a delayed death certificate.

A. A funeral establishment or responsible person who takes possession of human remains shall obtain a disposition-transit permit from a local registrar, a deputy local registrar or the state registrar before doing either of the following: 1. Providing final disposition of the hum…

A. Except as otherwise provided by law, a disinterment-reinterment permit is required before a person disinters human remains. The state registrar shall provide a permit to disinter human remains either by a court order issued in this state or by the written consent of the decede…

1. The decedent's name, social security number, date of birth, date of death, cause of death and location of death. 2. Any other information necessary to complete a death certificate for a foreign presumptive death. B. A death certificate for a foreign presumptive death shall sta…

A. A hospital, abortion clinic, physician or midwife shall submit a completed fetal death certificate to the state registrar for registration within seven days after the fetal death for each fetal death occurring in this state after a gestational period of twenty completed weeks …

A. If a fetal death occurs in this state and is not registered within one year after the date of the fetal death, the local registrar, deputy local registrar or state registrar shall register the fetal death certificate as a delayed fetal death certificate. B. The requirements fo…

A. In addition to the requirements of section 36-329, the state registrar shall establish a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth on a form approved by the state registrar for each fetal death occurring in this state after a gestational period of at least twenty completed …

If a birth resulting in stillbirth occurring in this state has not been registered within one year after the date of delivery, a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth marked "delayed" may be submitted and registered pursuant to this chapter and rules adopted pursuant to th…

A. Except as otherwise provided by law, a person in charge of a place of disposition shall not inter, cremate or allow other disposition of human remains without receiving a disposition-transit permit with the human remains. B. A person in charge of a place of disposition shall m…

A health care institution shall not release human remains or allow the removal of human remains from the health care institution until the health care institution makes a diligent effort to notify the responsible person and obtain the name of the entity to whom the human remains …

A. Within seven days after a child's birth in this state, a person shall submit to a local registrar, a deputy local registrar or the state registrar, a birth certificate for registration according to rules adopted pursuant to this chapter. The birth certificate shall be submitte…

If a completed birth certificate and evidentiary documents are submitted to a local registrar, a deputy local registrar or the state registrar for registration more than seven days but less than one year after the date of birth, the local registrar, deputy local registrar or stat…

A. If a birth certificate of a person who is born in this state is not registered within one year after the date of birth, a person authorized by this chapter may submit to the state registrar information and evidentiary documents that support the creation and registration of a d…

A. If a delayed birth certificate for a person who is born in this state is not created and registered pursuant to section 36-333.02, that person or, if the person is under eighteen years of age, the person's parent or legal guardian may petition the court for an order to establi…

A. A person completing a birth certificate shall state the name of the woman who gave birth to the child on the birth certificate as the child's mother unless otherwise provided by law or court order. B. The state registrar shall not refuse to register a birth certificate because…

A. A person who has custody of a foundling shall submit to the state registrar or to the local registrar or a deputy local registrar of the registration district where the foundling was found the following information: 1. The date the foundling was found. 2. The location where th…

A. For an adoption of a person born in this state, a state court shall submit to the state registrar an adoption certificate on a form approved by the state registrar or pursuant to a court order that includes: 1. Information required by rule about the adoptive father and adoptiv…

A. The state registrar shall amend the birth certificate for a person born in this state when the state registrar receives any of the following: 1. Except as provided in subsection D of this section, an adoption certificate or a court order for adoption required pursuant to secti…

A. The state registrar shall create and register a state of Arizona certificate of foreign birth for an adopted person who satisfies all of the following: 1. Was born in a foreign country. 2. Is not a United States citizen. 3. Has gone through a completed adoption process in a fo…

B. If the state registrar is notified pursuant to subsection A that a child born in this state is missing, the state registrar shall flag the child's registered birth certificate. If the missing child is found, the law enforcement agency that reported the child missing shall noti…

1. The individual is at least eighteen years of age. 2. The individual was born in this state. 3. The individual submits to the state registrar a written request to receive a copy of the original birth certificate. B. The copy of the original birth certificate shall clearly indic…

A. The director of the department shall establish the fees to be charged for searches, copies of registered certificates, certified copies of registered certificates, amending registered certificates and correcting certificates that are processed by the department. The director m…

A. The vital records electronic systems fund is established consisting of monies collected pursuant to section 36-341. The director shall administer the fund. The director shall use fund monies for costs associated with the vital records automation system. B. Fund monies: 1. Do n…

A. The state registrar may provide information contained in vital records to persons, including federal, state, local and other agencies, as required by law and for statistical or research purposes. B. Except as authorized by law, a local registrar, a deputy local registrar or th…

A person who has knowledge of information relating to a birth, death or fetal death must provide this information to the state registrar on request.

A. A person is guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor if the person: 1. Knowingly makes a false statement in a certificate or record required to be filed pursuant to this chapter or in an application for an amendment of a certificate or who knowingly submits false information intending …

A certificate registered pursuant to this chapter and rules adopted pursuant to this chapter is prima facie evidence of the facts stated in the certificate.

A. The director shall provide safe, secure and permanent preservation of vital records. The director shall comply with preservation requirements, including the resolution necessary for authentic reproduction, established by the Arizona state library, archives and public records p…