Title 7, Title 7: Municipalities

Sec. 7-39a. (Formerly Sec. 45-23). Record of name of registrar of vital statistics. Section 7-39a is repealed. (1967, P.A. 59, S. 2; P.A. 82-327, S. 12.)

Sec. 7-40. Seal. The registrar of vital statistics in each town shall have an official seal that shall be provided by the town and shall be used to authenticate certificates and copies of record. No person, other than the registrar of vital statistics or the registrar's authorize…

Sec. 7-41. Regulations re record keeping. Submission of certified copies to department. Each registrar of vital statistics shall keep records in accordance with regulations adopted by the commissioner in accordance with chapter 54. Any certified copy of a vital record submitted t…

Sec. 7-41a. Vital statistics records available for genealogical research. Section 7-41a is repealed, effective October 1, 2001. (1971, P.A. 228, S. 1; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 96-258, S. 1, 5; P.A. 01-163, S. 36.)

Sec. 7-42. Duties. Each registrar of vital statistics shall ascertain as accurately as the registrar can all marriages, deaths and fetal deaths, and all births, upon the affidavit of the father or mother, occurring in the registrar's town, and record the same in such form and wit…

Sec. 7-43. Municipal ordinances. Section 7-43 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 597; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 5; P.A. 82-327, S. 12.)

Sec. 7-44. When authenticated copies of certificates to be transmitted to other towns. Use of electronic vital records system. (a) When it appears from the certificate of a birth, marriage, death or fetal death filed with any registrar of vital statistics that the residence of th…

Sec. 7-45. Preparation of certificates. Each person making any certificate of birth, marriage, civil union, death or fetal death, or any copy of such certificate for the commissioner, or any sexton's report required by law, shall cause the same to be typewritten or printed in a l…

Sec. 7-46. Completion of records. The registrars shall complete the records of their respective towns by adding thereto a record of all the births, marriages, deaths and fetal deaths that have occurred in such towns since the date of incorporation of such towns, of which no certi…

Sec. 7-47. Indexes. Each registrar of vital statistics shall keep alphabetically arranged separate indexes for each group of vital events and shall enter therein the name of each person whose birth, marriage, death or fetal death is recorded by the registrar. (1949 Rev., S. 569; …

Sec. 7-47a. Definitions. Section 7-47a is repealed, effective October 1, 2001. (P.A. 79-434, S. 1; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 01-163, S. 36.)

Sec. 7-47b. Record keeping of personal data by institutions. Release or disposal of dead body or dead fetus. (a) Any person in charge of an institution shall keep a record of personal data concerning each person admitted or confined to such institution. This record shall include …

Sec. 7-48. Birth certificates: Filing requirements. (a) Not later than ten days after each live birth which occurs in this state, a birth certificate shall be filed with the registrar of vital statistics in the town in which the birth occurred and the certificate shall be registe…

Sec. 7-48a. Filing of original certificate of birth. Surrogacy agreement: Replacement certificate of birth. (a) Each original certificate of birth shall be filed with the name of the birth parent recorded. (b) If the birth is subject to a surrogacy agreement, the Department of Pu…

Sec. 7-49. Failure to file birth certificate. The secretary of any examining board of the healing arts mentioned under section 20-1 or the Department of Public Health, as the case may be, on ascertaining the fact that a person licensed to practice any of the healing arts or midwi…

Sec. 7-50. Restrictions on content of birth certificates. Exceptions. Filing of acknowledgments or adjudications of parentage. Removal or changing of parentage information. Access to copies restricted. (a) No certificate of birth shall contain any specific statement that the chil…

Sec. 7-51. Access to and examination and issuance of certified copies of birth and fetal death records or certificates restricted. Access to and disclosure of confidential information restricted. Fee waiver for certified copies of birth certificates for homeless young adults and …

Sec. 7-51a. Copies of vital records. Access to vital records by members of genealogical societies. Marriage and civil union licenses. Death certificates. Issuance of certified copies of electronically filed certificates. (a) Any person eighteen years of age or older may purchase …

Sec. 7-52. Certification of birth registration. (a) The registrar of vital statistics of the town in which the birth occurred, the registrar of vital statistics of the town in which the mother resided at the time of the birth or the department shall issue, upon the request of the…

Sec. 7-53. Birth certificates of adopted persons born in this state. (a) Upon receipt of the record of adoption referred to in subsection (e) of section 45a-745 or of other evidence satisfactory to the department that a person born in this state has been adopted, the department s…

Sec. 7-53a. Reports re issuance of original birth certificates to adopted persons and certain other persons and filing of contact preference and health history forms. Section 7-53a is repealed, effective July 1, 2021. (P.A. 14-133, S. 4; P.A. 21-21, S. 4.)

Sec. 7-54. Certification of birth registration or certificate of foreign birth for person born outside of the country and adopted by a state resident. Application and decree re change of biological age and date of birth. (a) The department shall prepare a certification of birth r…

Sec. 7-55. Certification of birth to have force and effect of original. Any certification of birth, when properly certified by the registrar of the town in which the birth occurred or of the town in which the mother resided at the time of the birth or the Department of Public Hea…

Sec. 7-56. Issuance of certified copies of birth certificates. Section 7-56 is repealed, effective October 1, 2001. (1949 Rev., S. 576; 1972, P.A. 127, S. 7; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 90-67, S. 5; P.A. 91-24, S. 2, 8; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 0…

Sec. 7-57. Delayed registration of births. (a) Any adult or the parent or legal guardian of any minor who is one year of age or older, for whose birth no certificate is on file, may request a delayed registration of birth by submitting to the department his or her affidavit and t…

Sec. 7-58. Record of birth of child born outside United States. Any American citizen who becomes the parent of a child or children born outside the United States, and who was a resident of this state at the time of leaving the United States, may file, with the town clerk of the t…

Sec. 7-59. Report of foundling. (a) The executive authority of any agency or institution, upon accepting the temporary custody of any foundling, shall, not later than ten days after the date of such acceptance, report to the registrar of vital statistics of the town or city where…

Sec. 7-60. Fetal death certificates. (a) As used in this section, “fetal death” means the death of a fetus prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from the uterus, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, in which there is no evidence of life after such expulsion or extra…

Sec. 7-61. Birth and fetal death certificates to state whether blood test has been made. In reporting each birth and fetal death, physicians and others permitted to attend pregnancy cases and required to report births and fetal deaths shall state on the birth certificate or fetal…

Sec. 7-62. Death certificates. Section 7-62 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 583–585; 1949, S. 234d; 1957, P.A. 163, S. 10; 1963, P.A. 107; 1967, P.A. 54; 1969, P.A. 442, S. 1; 699, S. 20; P.A. 73-178; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 79-47, S. 2; 79-434, S. 20.)

Sec. 7-62a. Illegal issuance of certificates. No person other than a registrar of vital statistics or the commissioner shall issue or cause to be issued any certificate or document which is, or purports to be, an original or certified copy of a certificate of birth, death, fetal …

Sec. 7-62b. Death certificates; filing and registration; responsibilities of funeral directors and licensed embalmers; medical certification; burial of person who died from communicable disease; “presumptive” death certificates; regulations. (a) A death certificate for each death…

Sec. 7-62c. Filing and registration of death certificate when death not recorded in accordance with Sec. 7-62b; “delayed” death certificates. (a) When a death occurring in this state has not been recorded in accordance with section 7-62b, a death certificate may be filed in accor…

Sec. 7-63. Notice of deaths at the Connecticut Juvenile Training School. Section 7-63 is repealed, effective July 1, 2018. (1949 Rev., S. 586; P.A. 99-26, S. 15, 39; P.A. 04-152, S. 2; P.A. 18-31, S. 43.)

Sec. 7-64. Disposal of bodies. The body of each person who dies in this state shall be buried, removed or cremated within a reasonable time after death. The person to whom the custody and control of the remains of any deceased person are granted by law shall see that the certific…

Sec. 7-65. Removal, transit and burial permit. Subregistrars. (a) The embalmer or funeral director licensed by the department, or licensed in a state having a reciprocal agreement on file with the department and complying with the terms of such agreement, who assumes custody of a…

Sec. 7-65a. Multiple interment in common hospital-supplied container. Multiple interment within a common hospital-supplied container shall be permitted only for fetal remains. If a death certificate is issued, such multiple interment shall be prohibited. Signed copies of the appr…

Sec. 7-66. Duties of sextons. Sextons' reports. Penalty. (a) The sexton of a cemetery shall specify on the removal, transit and burial permit the place of burial, by section, lot or grave, or other place of interment. If the removal, transit and burial permit is recorded in an el…

Sec. 7-67. Applications for and issuance of disinterment permits. (a) No person shall open any grave for the disinterment of the body of any person in any cemetery or burial place or disinter or remove any dead body from the town in which the death took place, without having proc…

Sec. 7-68. Issuance of disinterment or removal permit. Section 7-68 is repealed, effective October 1, 2009. (1949 Rev., S. 592; P.A. 79-434, S. 10; P.A. 04-255, S. 9; P.A. 05-272, S. 13; P.A. 09-232, S. 106.)

Sec. 7-68a. Application to Probate Court for disinterment of remains of child buried in a multiple interment within common hospital-supplied container. Hearing. Order of disinterment. Sexton and Chief Medical Examiner to determine whether remains are sufficiently identifiable. Li…

Sec. 7-69. Removal of body of deceased person. No person except a licensed embalmer or funeral director licensed by the department, or licensed in a state having a reciprocal agreement on file with the department and complying with the terms of such agreement, shall remove the bo…

Sec. 7-70. Temporary removal of body to another town or state. Temporary removal permit. Section 7-70 is repealed, effective October 1, 2004. (1949 Rev., S. 594; 1951, S. 237d; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 01-163, S. 24; P.A. 0…

Sec. 7-71. Report of name of sexton. The secretary or committee of each cemetery association in any town shall report to the registrar of the town in which the cemetery is situated the name of the sexton in charge of the cemetery of such association. (1949 Rev., S. 595.)

Sec. 7-72. Sextons' reports. Fines. Section 7-72 is repealed, effective October 1, 2009. (1949 Rev., S. 596; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 04-255, S. 11; P.A. 08-184, S. 2; P.A. 09-232, S. 106.)

Sec. 7-73. Fees for marriage license, burial or removal, transit and burial permit. Marriage license surcharge. (a) To any person performing the duties required by the provisions of the general statutes relating to registration of marriages, deaths and fetal deaths, the following…