Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

Whenever the facts are not correctly stated in any certificate of birth, death, fetal death, or marriage already registered, the person asserting that the error exists may make an affidavit under oath stating the changes necessary to make the record correct, that shall be support…

(a) (1) Beginning July 1, 2026, if a name is not accurately recorded because of the absence of a diacritical mark on an English letter in any certificate of live birth, fetal death, death, or marriage already registered, the person asserting the omission, or the person’s conserva…

Section 103225 shall be applicable to certificates of birth only in the absence of conflicting information relative to the existence or nonexistence of a parent and child relationship, as this term is defined in subdivision (b) of Section 7601 of the Family Code, on the originall…

If the amendment relates to a certificate or marriage license that has not been transmitted to the State Registrar, the local registrar shall review the amendment for acceptance for filing, and if accepted shall file the amendment and shall note the fact of the amendment, with it…

If the amendment relates to a certificate that has been transmitted to the State Registrar, the amendment shall be transmitted to the State Registrar who shall review it for acceptance for filing.

If the amendment is accepted, the State Registrar shall transmit copies of the amendment to the county recorder in whose offices copies of the original record and information are on file. The State Registrar shall also transmit copies of the amendment to that county’s local regis…

The State Registrar shall send a certified copy of the newly amended record of birth, death or marriage to the applicant without additional charge, except for those amendments that are filed within one year of the date of occurrence of the event.

The amendment shall be filed with and become a part of the record to which it pertains.

(a) A person born in this state whose birth is registered in this state, or the person’s conservator, or if a minor, the person’s parent or guardian, may submit a written request to the state registrar for a new birth certificate on the ground that his or her existing birth certi…

An amended certificate of death of an individual who is a peace officer pursuant to Section 830 of the Penal Code, who was killed in the line of duty, shall be processed immediately upon acceptance for filing and shall be issued by the State Registrar or local registrar no later …

The coroner having jurisdiction shall register with the local registrar of births and deaths a certificate of death giving the name of the person and all statistical particulars that have been discovered concerning him or her, in the case of the identification of a person previou…

This amendment to the record shall be handled in the manner prescribed in Article 1 (commencing with Section 103225).

(a) Notwithstanding other provisions in this part relative to amendment of a record, if the information originally furnished in the medical and health data section of a record of death, fetal death, or live birth is modified by supplemental information relative thereto, the certi…

This amendment shall be handled in the manner prescribed in Article 1 (commencing with Section 103225).

When any certificate of birth of a living child is registered without the name of the child being entered thereon, the local registrar shall make out and deliver to the parents of the child a special blank for a supplemental report of the name of the child.

The parents shall complete the report and return it to the local registrar as soon as the child is named.

The State Registrar shall send a certified copy of the newly amended record of birth to the applicant without additional cost, except for those amendments that are filed within one year of the date of occurrence of the event.

This amendment to the record shall be handled in the manner prescribed in Article 1 (commencing with Section 103225).

The purpose of this article is to provide a remedy for correction of birth certificates that contain entries regarding race or color that, in the opinion of the registrant, constitute racial slurs or are otherwise offensive.

Any person who was born in this state and whose birth is registered in this state may apply to the State Registrar for the establishment and issuance of a new birth certificate and the sealing of the original if the person certifies that the entry or entries in the original birth…

Upon receipt of the application and payment of the required fee, the State Registrar shall establish a new birth certificate for the person.

The entry for race or color in the new certificate shall be as indicated in the application. No reference shall be made in the new birth certificate that it is not the original birth certificate of the registrant. The new birth certificate shall supplant any birth certificate pre…

The State Registrar shall transmit a certified copy of a birth certificate newly established under this article to the registrant without additional charge.

When a new birth certificate is established pursuant to this article, the State Registrar shall inform the local registrar and the county recorder whose records contain copies of the original certificate, who shall forward the copies to the State Registrar for filing with the ori…

(a) If a person who has a birth certificate issued by this state has their name changed by order of a court of this state, another state, the District of Columbia, any territory of the United States, or any foreign court, an application, including an affidavit of this fact, may b…

Upon receipt of the application, affidavit, certified copy of the court order and payment of the required fee, the State Registrar shall review the amendment for acceptance for filing, and if accepted, shall file the amendment and shall note the fact of the amendment on the other…

The State Registrar shall furnish a certified copy of the newly amended record of birth prepared under authority of this article to the registrant without additional cost.

(a) A person may file a petition with the superior court in any county seeking a judgment recognizing the change of gender and sex identifier to female, male, or nonbinary. (b) If requested, the judgment shall include an order that a new birth certificate be prepared for the pers…

(a) The State Registrar shall issue a new birth certificate reflecting a change of gender and sex identifier to female, male, or nonbinary without a court order for any person who has a birth certificate issued by this state who submits directly to the State Registrar an applicat…

(a) A petition for a court order to recognize a change in the petitioner’s gender and sex identifier as female, male, or nonbinary and to direct the issuance of new administrative documents to reflect those changes shall be accompanied by an affidavit from the petitioner and a ce…

(a) (1) If a judgment pursuant to Section 103430 includes an order for a new birth certificate for the petitioner and if the petitioner has a birth certificate issued by this state, a certified copy of the judgment of the court ordering the new birth certificate, shall be filed b…

(a) In lieu of separate proceedings, a single petition may be filed with the superior court to change the petitioner’s name and recognize the change to the petitioner’s gender and sex identifier and, if requested, to order the issuance of a new birth certificate, marriage license…

(a) As used in this section, “change of name or gender and sex identifier, or both” means a proceeding for a change of gender and sex identifier pursuant to Section 103430, for a combined change of the petitioner’s name and recognition of the change to the petitioner’s gender and…

(a) The new birth certificate, marriage license and certificate, or confidential marriage license and certificate established pursuant to this article shall supplant any birth certificate, marriage license and certificate, or confidential marriage license and certificate previous…

(a) The State Registrar shall transmit a certified copy of a birth certificate newly established under this article to the registrant without additional charge. (b) The county clerk shall transmit a copy of a confidential marriage certificate newly established under this article …

This article shall become operative on January 1, 2023.

It is the intent of the Legislature that this article provide a remedy for the correction of birth certificates that contain gender errors made by the birthing hospital or local registrar when completing the original birth certificate.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any person born in this state, or, in the case of a minor or incompetent person, his or her parent, legal guardian, or conservator, may apply to the State Registrar for the establishment and issuance of a new birth certific…

Upon receipt of the application and sworn affidavit or affidavits, and upon payment of the fee required by Section 103700, the State Registrar shall establish a new birth certificate for the person.

The new birth certificate established pursuant to this article shall in no way indicate that it is not the original birth certificate of the applicant. The new birth certificate shall supplant any birth certificate previously registered for the applicant, and shall be the only bi…

The State Registrar shall transmit a certified copy of a birth certificate established pursuant to this article to the applicant, without additional charge.

(a) When a new birth certificate is established pursuant to this article, the State Registrar shall so inform the local registrar and the county recorder whose records contain copies of the original certificate, who shall forward those copies to the State Registrar for filing wit…

(a) When there occurs, in the household of any dairy worker, milkman, milk dealer, milk distributor, creamery worker, or pasteurizing plant operator, a case or a suspected case of a milk transmitted disease listed pursuant to Section 120130, the sale or distribution of milk from …

The department shall cooperate with the Department of Food and Agriculture in the inspection of any milk products plants associated with diseases reported pursuant to Section 120130. The Department of Food and Agriculture shall consult with the department prior to condemning milk…

As used in this article, unless the context requires otherwise: (a) “Beverage” means beer or other malt beverages and mineral waters, soda water and similar carbonated soft drinks in liquid form and intended for human consumption. (b) “Beverage container” means the individual, se…

On and after January 1, 1979, no person shall sell or offer for sale in this state any metal beverage container so designed and constructed that a part of the container is severable in opening the container. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the sale in California of the con…

The Secretary of the Resources Agency may extend permission to a manufacturer to sell flip-top containers for one or more periods of time for a total period not to exceed one year after January 1, 1979. The subsequent resale of these flip-top containers by other persons at wholes…

The Secretary of the Resources Agency shall conduct hearings upon the requests for extension prior to making decisions, so that members of the public and manufacturers may be heard, and shall receive evidence and make findings of fact. The secretary shall cause public notificatio…

There shall be no administrative appeal of the secretary’s decision regarding a request for an extension. Judicial review of the decision of the Secretary of the Resources Agency on any request for an extension may be made by the manufacturer. In addition, any member of the publi…

“Low acid frozen food” means a food that, by virtue of its low acid content, does not preclude the growth of Clostridium botulinum.