Title 26, Title 26: HEALTH AND VITAL STATISTICS

26:8-14. Appointment of successors At least 10 days before the expiration of the term of office of a local registrar his successor shall be appointed by the appointing authority. Amended by L.1965, c. 78, s. 39.

26:8-15. Vacancy Any vacancy occurring in the office of local registrar shall be filled in the same manner as an original appointment but for the unexpired term only. If in case of such vacancy, the appointing authority shall not within 10 days thereafter fill such vacancy and ce…

26:8-16. Persons eligible as local registrars No physician, midwife or funeral director shall be appointed as local registrar, but in any registration district where full time health officers or other full time health officials will, in the judgment of the State department, prope…

26:8-17 Local registrar; appointment of deputy, alternate deputy registrar. 26:8-17. The local registrar, immediately upon acceptance of the appointment, shall appoint a deputy to assist in the normal, day-to-day operation of the office and whose duty shall be to act in the regis…

26:8-18. Subregistrar; appointment When it appears necessary for the convenience of the people in any registration district, the local registrar may, with the approval of the State registrar, appoint one or more suitable persons to act as subregistrars, who shall be authorized to…

26:8-19. Removal from office 26:8-19. Any local registrar, deputy registrar, alternate deputy registrar, or subregistrar, who in the judgment of the State department fails or neglects to discharge efficiently the duties of his office as set forth in this chapter or chapter 6 of t…

26:8-2. Registration district Every incorporated political subdivision, including a county, but not a school district, shall constitute a registration district.

26:8-20. Nonapplicability 26:8-20. The provisions of this chapter fixing the terms of office and providing methods of appointment and removal shall not apply to the positions of local registrar, deputy registrar, alternate deputy registrar, or subregistrar in municipalities opera…

26:8-21. Applicability of chapter 26:8-21. Every provision of this chapter, of chapter 6 of this Title (R.S.26:6-1 et seq.), as well as chapter 1 of Title 37 of the Revised Statutes, and of the rules and regulations of the State department applicable to local registrars in the re…

26:8-21.1 Rules, regulations. 28. The Commissioner of Health, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), shall adopt rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes of this act. L.2003, c.221, s.28; amended 2012, c.17, s.348.

26:8-22. Oath of office 26:8-22. Before entering upon their respective duties the state registrar, local registrar, deputy local registrar, alternate deputy registrar, and subregistrar shall take an oath to perform faithfully and impartially the duties of his office. The oath of …

26:8-23 Duty of the department; examination of records. 26:8-23. The Department of Health shall have charge of the registration of births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages, civil unions, and domestic partnerships and shall procure the prompt and accurate registration of the same i…

26:8-24 Duties, responsibilities of State registrar. 26:8-24. The State registrar shall: a. Have general supervision throughout the State of the registration of vital records; b. Have supervisory power over local registrars, deputy local registrars, alternate deputy local registr…

26:8-24.1 New Jersey Electronic Death Registration System (NJ-EDRS) 16. a. The State registrar shall establish and maintain the New Jersey Electronic Death Registration System or NJ-EDRS. (1) The system shall be fully implemented no later than 18 months after the date of enactmen…

26:8-24.2 "New Jersey Electronic Death Registration Support Fund." 17. a. There is established the "New Jersey Electronic Death Registration Support Fund" as a nonlapsing, revolving fund to be administered by the Commissioner of Health and credited with monies received pursuant t…

26:8-24.3 Means of accessing NJ-EDRS; requirements. 18. The Chief State Medical Examiner, the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development or his designee, county or intercounty medical examiners, licensed health care facilities, other public or private institutions providing …

26:8-25 Duties, responsibilities of local registrar. 26:8-25. The local registrar, under the supervision and direction of the State registrar, shall: a. Strictly and thoroughly enforce the law relative to the disposal of dead bodies and the registration of vital records in his re…

26:8-25.1 Suspension of authority to participate in NJ-EDRS. 27. The State registrar may suspend the authority of a local registrar, deputy registrar, alternate deputy registrar or subregistrar to participate in the NJ-EDRS, and thereby preclude that person from doing burial perm…

26:8-26 Duty of subregistrar. 26:8-26. Each subregistrar shall note, on each certificate of birth or death, over his signature, the date of filing, and shall forward all certificates to the local registrar of the district within five days, with the exception that in any instance …

26:8-27 Inquiries to applicants for marriage or civil union license. 26:8-27. Inquiries to applicants for marriage or civil union license. The department shall issue to each local registrar and to city clerks of cities of the first class, the form and substance of the several inq…

26:8-28 Birth certificate required; information furnished. 26:8-28. a. (1) Except as provided by subsection e. of this section, within five days after each birth, there shall be filed with the local registrar of the district in which the birth occurred a certificate of the birth …

26:8-28.1 Contents of certificate of parentage. 7. A Certificate of Parentage may serve to satisfy the method of collection of Social Security numbers as required pursuant to subsection c. of R.S.26:8-28 and shall serve as the voluntary acknowledgment of paternity by a father. Th…

26:8-29. Contents of birth certificate The certificate of birth shall contain such items as shall be listed on birth certificate forms provided or approved by the State registrar under authority of section 26:8-24(c) of the Revised Statutes. Amended by L.1951, c. 84, p. 476, s. 2…

26:8-3. Consolidation of districts The state department, or the local boards having jurisdiction of the territory in question, may combine two or more registration districts when desirable to facilitate registration.

26:8-30 Execution, return of certificate of birth; availability of certificate of parentage; challenge to acknowledgment of paternity. 26:8-30. The attending physician, midwife or person acting as the agent of the physician or midwife, who was in attendance upon the birth shall b…

26:8-31. Certificate of birth or parentage when no physician or midwife in attendance 26:8-31. In case there is no physician, midwife, or person acting as the agent of the physician or midwife, in attendance upon the birth, it shall be the duty of one of the following persons in …

26:8-32. Completion of details by local registrar In case the person filing a certificate of birth is unable, by diligent inquiry, to obtain any item or items contemplated in section 26:8-29 of this Title, the local registrar shall secure from the person so reporting, or any othe…

26:8-33. Report by father or mother In case the father or mother of the child does not, within one month after the date of birth, receive a notice from the local registrar that the birth of the child has been recorded, as provided in this chapter, the father or mother of the chil…

26:8-34. Supplemental return of name of child When a certificate of birth of a living child is presented without the statement of the given name, the local registrar shall make out and deliver to the parents of the child a special blank for the supplemental report of the given na…

26:8-35. Incomplete certificate of birth No certificate of birth shall be held to be complete and correct that does not supply all of the items of information called for therein, or satisfactorily account for their omission.

26:8-36. Interrogation of informant Any person reporting a birth, or who may be interrogated in relation thereto, shall answer correctly and to the best of his knowledge all questions put to him by the local registrar which may be calculated to elicit any information needed to ma…

26:8-37 Stillborn child to be registered as fetal death; birth certificate options. 26:8-37. a. A stillborn child shall be registered as a fetal death as required by R.S.26:6-11. b. (1) The State registrar shall establish a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth, subject to…

26:8-38. Recording unrecorded births; penalty for false certificate 26:8-38. The birth of any child which has occurred or which may hereafter occur and which is not recorded with the State registrar as required by this chapter, may be recorded by filing a certificate with the Sta…

26:8-39. Birth certificate not to disclose illegitimacy; exceptions No official in this state shall issue a birth certificate revealing or disclosing illegitimacy; provided, that a certificate may be issued disclosing such information in response to court process or subpoena or i…

26:8-4 Duty to furnish information relative to birth, death, marriage, civil union, domestic partnership. 26:8-4. Duty to furnish information relative to birth, death, marriage, civil union, domestic partnership. Upon demand of the State registrar in person, by mail, by means of …

26:8-40. Change of surname of child born out of wedlock; amendment of original birth record a. The State registrar shall amend the original birth record of a child born out of wedlock to change its surname on the request of both natural parents or the child who is 18 years of age…

26:8-40.1 Adopted children, birth certificates; procedure. 26:8-40.1. a. When any person is adopted pursuant to provisions of the laws of any state or country, and the adoption has been certified to the State Registrar as required by subsection b. of section 16 of P.L.1977, c.367…

26:8-40.10. Foreign births and adoptions The birth of any child which has occurred or which may hereafter occur outside of the United States, where such child is a citizen of the United States by reason of the citizenship of a parent or the parents of such child, and which is not…

26:8-40.11. Change of surname of child born out of wedlock; amendment of original birth record Whenever the mother of a child born out of wedlock, who has the same surname as the mother, and who has no presumed natural father pursuant to the "New Jersey Parentage Act," P.L.1983, …

26:8-40.12 Gender reassignment surgery; amendment of birth certificate. 1. The State registrar shall issue an amended certificate of birth to a person born in this State who requests an amended certificate of birth which shows the gender and, if applicable, the name of the person…

26:8-40.2. Parentage unknown; presumption of birth within state Any person who, as a child of unknown parentage, heretofore was or hereafter shall be found in this State and whose parentage and the place and time of whose birth remain unknown, shall be presumed to have been born …

26:8-40.20 Legislative findings and declarations. 1. The Legislature finds and declares that: major birth defects occur in approximately 1% of all births and are related to over 25% of all infant deaths; while the cause of many birth defects is unknown, there is much concern that…

26:8-40.21 Birth defects, severe neonatal jaundice registry. 2. a. The Department of Health shall establish and maintain a birth defects and severe neonatal jaundice registry, which shall contain a confidential record of all birth defects and all cases of severe hyperbilirubinemi…

26:8-40.22 Confidential reports of abortions of fetus with or infant affected by birth defect or severe neonatal jaundice. 3. a. The Commissioner of Health, in consultation with the Public Health Council, shall require the confidential reporting to the Department of Health of all…

26:8-40.23. Confidentiality of reports The confidential reports made pursuant to this act are to be used only by the Department of Health and other agencies that may be designated by the Commissioner of Health and shall not otherwise be divulged or made public so as to disclose t…

26:8-40.24. Nonliability for divulging confidential information No individual or organization providing information to the Department of Health in accordance with this act shall be deemed to be or held liable for divulging confidential information. L.1983, c. 291, s. 5.