Title XVIII, Public Health

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Abortion" means the purposeful interruption of pregnancy with the intention other than to produce a live-born infant or to remove a dead fetus and which does not result in a live birth. "Abortion" excludes manag…

There shall be established in the Department for Public Health, Cabinet for Health and Family Services, a vital statistics program which shall maintain and operate the only official system of vital statistics in the Commonwealth.

The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall adopt administrative regulations pursuant to KRS Chapter 13A for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter.

The secretary for health and family services shall designate the state registrar of vital statistics, hereinafter referred to as "state registrar," in accordance with merit system laws and administrative regulations.

The state registrar, under the supervision of the commissioner of health, shall: (1) Administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter and the administrative regulations issued hereunder; issue instructions for the efficient administration of the system of vital statistics; d…

registrars and local health departments. (1) Each county in the Commonwealth shall carry out the provisions of this chapter. (2) The secretary may, upon the recommendation of the state registrar, designate a local registrar in each county to aid in the efficient administration of…

(1) In order to promote and maintain nationwide uniformity in the system of vital statistics, the forms of certificates and reports required by this chapter, or by administrative regulations adopted hereunder, shall include, as a minimum, the items recommended by the federal agen…

institution and cabinet -- Contents of birth certificate. (1) A certificate of birth for each live birth which occurs in the Commonwealth shall be filed with the state registrar within five (5) working days after such birth and shall be registered if it has been completed and fil…

The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall pay the sum of ten dollars ($10) to an institution or local health department for each completed affidavit-of-paternity form returned to the state registrar by the institution or local health department, pursuant to KRS 213.046, li…

(1) All paternity judgment orders issued or modified by a court on or after July 15, 1992, shall include, but not be limited to, the following information about the father, if the information is known at the time the order is set: (a) Full name; (b) Social Security number; (c) Ag…

of unknown parentage. (1) The person who assumes the custody of a live-born infant of unknown parentage shall report on a form and in a manner prescribed by the state registrar within five (5) working days to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services the following information: (…

(1) If a certificate of birth of a living person born in the Commonwealth has not been filed within the time period as provided in KRS 213.046, a certificate of birth may be filed in accordance with the administrative regulations of the cabinet. The certificate shall be registere…

(1) Upon notification by the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet that a child born in the Commonwealth is missing, the state registrar of vital statistics shall flag the birth certificate record of the child in such a manner that whenever a copy of the birth certificate or informat…

(1) For each adoption decreed by a Circuit Court in the Commonwealth, the court shall require the preparation of a report of adoption on a form prescribed and furnished by the state registrar. The report shall include the facts necessary to establish a new certificate of birth of…

- Findings of paternity reported -- Procedure when judgment or acknowledgment of paternity is reversed or modified -- Copies of original birth certificate sealed -- Birth certificate for adopted child. (1) The state registrar shall establish a new certificate of birth for a perso…

- Method of filing -- Notice of military burial rights -- Medical certification of cause of death -- Contents of certificate -- Supplemental report -- Verification- of-death statements -- Interment or other disposition of body prohibited unless accompanied by copy of certificate …

(1) No person shall cremate or cause to be transported for the purpose of cremation the body of any person whose death occurs in the Commonwealth, without first obtaining from the coroner of the county in which the death occurred, a permit stating the cause of death and authorizi…

If a death is presumed to have occurred within the Commonwealth but the body cannot be located or recovered, a death certificate may be prepared by the state registrar upon receipt of an order of a court of competent jurisdiction, which shall include the finding of facts required…

(1) If a death occurring in the Commonwealth has not been registered within one (1) year from the date of death, a certificate of death may be filed in accordance with regulation of the cabinet pursuant to KRS Chapter 13A. The certificate shall be registered subject to the eviden…

(1) Each fetal death of twenty (20) completed weeks' gestation or more, calculated from the date last normal menstrual period began to the date of delivery or in which the fetus weighs three hundred fifty (350) grams or more, which occurs in the Commonwealth, shall be reported on…

(1) For the purposes of this section, "fetal remains" means the biological remains of a human child resulting from the termination of a pregnancy by a surgical or medication abortion prior to birth or miscarriage. (2) (a) Within twenty-four (24) hours before a surgical or medicat…

Contents of report -- Public report by Vital Statistics Branch -- Administrative regulations -- Audit by Inspector General. (1) Each abortion as defined in KRS 213.011 which occurs in the Commonwealth, regardless of the length of gestation, shall be reported to the Vital Statisti…

The reports required under KRS 213.101 are statistical reports to be used only for medical and health purposes and shall not be incorporated into the permanent official records of the system of vital statistics.

(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of KRS 311.300 to 311.350, any hospital or institution of higher learning may make application to any medical school incorporated within the Commonwealth for the loan of unclaimed whole dead bodies or parts thereof for educational or scientific …

(1) The cabinet shall perform the collection, indexing, tabulation, and registration of data relating to marriages, divorces, and annulments. The secretary shall adopt administrative regulations to carry out the provisions of this section. (2) Each county clerk shall on or before…

(1) A certificate or report registered under this chapter may be amended only in accordance with this section and administrative regulations adopted by the cabinet to protect the integrity and accuracy of vital records. (2) A certificate or report that is amended under this secti…

To preserve vital records, the cabinet may prepare typewritten, photographic, electronic, or other reproductions of certificates or reports of the vital statistics program. The reproductions, when certified by the state registrar, shall be accepted in the same manner as the origi…

(1) To protect the integrity of vital records, to insure their proper use, and to insure the efficient and proper administration of the system of vital statistics, it shall be unlawful for any person to permit inspection of, or to disclose information contained in vital records o…

(1) The state registrar shall upon receipt of an application issue a certified copy of a vital record in the registrar's custody or a part thereof to any applicant. Each copy issued shall show the date of registration and copies issued from records marked "delayed" or "amended" s…

- Exemptions. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the cabinet shall prescribe by regulation a fee not to exceed five dollars ($5), to be paid for certified copies of certificates or records, or for a search of the files or records when no copy is made, or fo…

(1) Every person in charge of an institution shall keep a record of personal data concerning each person admitted or confined to the institution. This record shall include the information required for certificates of birth and death and the reports of fetal death and induced term…

Any person having knowledge of the facts necessary to complete a vital record shall furnish the information that person possesses regarding any birth, death, fetal death, induced termination of pregnancy, marriage, or dissolution of marriage or annulment upon request of the cabin…

The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all certificates of birth, death, marriage, divorce, stillbirth, and abortion previously received by the Vital Statistics Branch and in the custody of the state registrar or any health department.

during autopsy, conditions. (1) In order to obtain information which may be useful to research organizations studying the causes and incidence of the sudden infant death syndrome, a program is hereby established in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. The purpose of this p…

KRS 213.011 to 213.161 may be cited as the Vital Statistics Act.

comply -- Administrative regulations. (1) Each prescription dispensed by a pharmacy for RU-486, cytotec, pitocin, mifeprex, misoprostol, or any other drug or combination of drugs for which the primary indication is the induction of abortion as defined in KRS 213.011 shall be repo…

Confidentiality of identity -- Communication of reporting requirements. (1) The cabinet shall create and distribute the report forms required in KRS 213.101, 213.172, 311.732, 311.7735, 311.7736, 311.774, 311.7741, and 311.783 within sixty (60) days after April 14, 2022. (2) The …

(1) The cabinet shall publish printed material and maintain on its Web site the following statement: "Information on the potential ability of qualified medical professionals to reverse the effects of an abortion obtained through the use of abortion-inducing drugs as defined in KR…

(1) In the event that a homicide has been committed and the person charged with the homicide refuses to permit the burial of the body of the deceased person who was the victim of his or her alleged homicide, any member of the family of the deceased, either by consanguinity or aff…

(1) Any person who shall cremate or cause to be cremated or transport or cause to be transported for the purpose of cremation, the body of any person whose death occurs in the Commonwealth, without first obtaining from the coroner of the county in which death occurred, authorizat…