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Title 37, Title 37. Health-Safety-Morals

67 chapters · 2,076 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 372,076 Ch 3701, Chapter 3701 | Department of Health215 Ch 3734, Chapter 3734 | Solid and Hazardous W…131 Ch 3715, Chapter 3715 | Pure Food and Drug Law85 Ch 3702, Chapter 3702 | Health Care Facilitie…83 Ch 3737, Chapter 3737 | Fire Marshal; Fire Safety75 Ch 3707, Chapter 3707 | Board of Health69 Ch 3721, Chapter 3721 | Nursing Homes; Reside…67 Ch 3727, Chapter 3727 | Hospitals60 Ch 3781, Chapter 3781 | Building Standards - …59 Ch 3709, Chapter 3709 | Health Districts58 Ch 3743, Chapter 3743 | Fireworks54 Ch 3719, Chapter 3719 | Controlled Substances51 Ch 3705, Chapter 3705 | Vital Statistics49 Ch 3772, Chapter 3772 | Casino Gaming47

49 sections·Filtered byTitle 37✕Ch 3705✕

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.01 Vital statistics definitions
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As used in this chapter: (A) "Live birth" means the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of human conception that after such expulsion or extraction breathes or shows any other evidence of life such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.02 Statewide system of vital statistics - office of vital statistics
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A statewide system of registration of births, deaths, fetal deaths, and other vital statistics is hereby established, which shall consist of the office of vital statistics in the department of health and primary registration districts. The office of vital statistics shall be main…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.03 State registrar is head of office of vital statistics - powers and duties
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(A) The director of health shall designate the state registrar, who shall head the office of vital statistics and do all of the following:(1) Administer and enforce this chapter, the rules issued under this chapter, and the instructions of the director for the efficient administr…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.04 Registration districts
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The state shall be divided into registration districts. Each health district created by section 3709.01 of the Revised Code constitutes a primary registration district. The director of health may combine two or more primary registration districts, and may establish any state hosp…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.05 Local registrars - deputy registrar - records

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In each primary registration district, the board of health of the health district, on the recommendation of the health commissioner, shall appoint the local registrar of vital statistics. When a state hospital or other public institution has been made a primary registration distr…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.06 Local registrar to supply forms of certificates

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The local registrar of vital statistics shall supply blank forms of certificates and instructions to such persons as require them, and shall require each birth, fetal death, or death certificate, when presented for filing, to be made out in accordance with sections 3705.01 to 370…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.07 Keeping and transmitting records by local registrar

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(A) The local registrar of vital statistics shall number consecutively each fetal death and death certificate printed on paper that the local registrar receives from the electronic death registration system (EDRS) maintained by the department of health. The number assigned to eac…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.071 Copy of death certificate of child to be sent to county of residence

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On receipt of a death certificate of a person who was under eighteen years of age at death, the local registrar of vital statistics shall determine the county in which the person resided at the time of death. If the county of residence was other than the county in which the perso…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.08 Director shall prescribe forms

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(A) The director of health, by rule, shall prescribe the form of records and certificates required by this chapter. Records and certificates shall include the items and information prescribed by the director, including the items recommended by the national center for health stati…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.09 Filing and registration of birth certificate

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(A) A birth certificate for each live birth in this state shall be filed in the registration district in which it occurs within ten calendar days after such birth and shall be registered if it has been completed and filed in accordance with this section. (B) When a birth occurs i…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.091 Acknowledgment of paternity affidavits

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(A) If the natural mother and alleged father of a child sign an acknowledgment of paternity affidavit prepared pursuant to section 3111.31 of the Revised Code with respect to that child at the office of the local registrar, the local registrar shall provide a notary public to not…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.10 Delayed birth certificate

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Any birth certificate submitted for filing eleven or more days after the birth occurred constitutes a delayed birth registration. A delayed birth certificate may be filed in accordance with rules which shall be adopted by the director of health. The rules shall include, but not b…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.11 Report of foundling child

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Whoever finds a living infant of unknown parentage shall immediately report such finding to the local registrar of vital statistics of the registration district in which the child is found, on a prescribed form which shall state:(A) Date of finding;(B) Place of finding;(C) Sex of…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.12 Issuance of new or foreign birth record after adoption - access to original record, adoption file

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Upon receipt of the items sent by a probate court pursuant to section 3107.19 of the Revised Code concerning the adoption of a child born in this state whose adoption was decreed on or after January 1, 1964, the department of health shall issue, unless otherwise requested by the …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.121 Adoption decreed in out-of-state court

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When the adoption of a child whose birth occurred in this state is decreed by a court in another state and when the department of health has received, from the court that decreed the adoption, an official communication containing information similar to that contained in the certi…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.122 Foreign birth record

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(A) The department of health shall issue a foreign birth record as follows: (1) On receipt of the items sent by a probate court pursuant to section 3107.19 of the Revised Code concerning the adoption of a person born in a foreign country, unless the adoptive parents or adopted pe…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.123 Records for adoptions decreed before 1/1/1964

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No original birth record of any person whose birth occurred in this state and whose adoption was decreed before January 1, 1964, no birth record in the adopted name of any person whose birth occurred in this state and whose adoption was decreed before January 1, 1964, and no pape…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.124 Application for new birth record

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An adopted person whose birth occurred in this state, whose adoption was decreed before January 1, 1964, who did not have a new or reissued birth record in the person's adopted name prepared pursuant to division (C) or (D) of section 3705.12 of the Revised Code as those divisions…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.125 Prima facie evidence

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A new birth record or foreign birth record, and any certified or exact copy of the new birth record or foreign birth record, when properly authenticated by a duly authorized person, shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and places of the facts stated in the new birth record…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.126 Confidentiality

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The department of health shall neither open an adoption file nor make its contents available except as follows: (A) The department shall inspect the file to determine the court involved for the purpose of division (D) of section 3107.09 or section 3107.091 or 3107.171 of the Revi…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.13 Filing court order of change of name - new birth certificate

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When a legal change of name of a person whose birth occurred in this state has been granted by a court, the office of vital statistics shall receive and file a certified copy of the court order legally changing the name. The court order shall be cross-referenced with the original…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.14 Supplemental report for given name

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When a living child's birth is recorded without a given name, a supplemental report of such given name may be completed and presented within one year after the birth to the local registrar in the registration district where the birth occurred or to the office of vital statistics.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.15 Registration of unrecorded birth - correction of birth record

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Whoever claims to have been born in this state, and whose registration of birth is not recorded, or has been lost or destroyed, or has not been properly and accurately recorded, may file an application for registration of birth or correction of the birth record in the probate cou…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.16 Statement of facts in certificates - death certificate

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(A) For purposes of this section notwithstanding section 3705.01 of the Revised Code, "fetal death" does not include death of the product of human conception prior to twenty weeks of gestation. (B) Each death or fetal death that occurs in this state shall be registered with the l…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.17 Burial permit required - records to be kept

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The body of a person whose death occurs in this state shall not be interred, deposited in a vault or tomb, cremated, or otherwise disposed of by a funeral director until a burial permit is issued by a local registrar or sub-registrar of vital statistics. No such permit shall be i…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.18 Authorization for final disposition of body transported into state

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When a death occurs outside the state and the body is transported into this state for burial or other disposition, the body must be accompanied by an authorization for final disposition issued in accordance with the laws and health regulations of the place where death occurred. T…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.19 Death certificate to state whether deceased served in the armed forces

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(A) If the deceased served in the armed forces of the United States, the death certificate shall include a statement of the branch of service in which he served, the date of entry into service, the date and type of discharge from such service, and information to show the name and…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.20 Fetal death certificate

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(A) The fetal death of the product of human conception of at least twenty weeks of gestation shall be registered on a fetal death certificate. On application of the funeral director or either parent, the fetal death of the product of human conception prior to twenty weeks of gest…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.21 Registration of marriages, divorces, dissolutions, annulments and corrections of marriage certificate

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All marriages taking place within the state, all divorces, dissolutions, and annulments of marriages decreed by a court of this state, and all corrections of certificates of marriage shall be registered with the office of vital statistics of the department of health. On or before…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.22 Birth certificate to be amended to correct errors

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Whenever it is alleged that the facts stated in any birth, fetal death, or death record filed in the department of health are not true, the director may require satisfactory evidence to be presented in the form of affidavits, amended records, or certificates to establish the alle…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.23 Copies of vital records

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(A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the director of health, the state registrar, or a local registrar, on receipt of a signed application and the fee specified in section 3705.24 of the Revised Code, shall issue a certified copy of a vital record, or of a part of…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.231 Copy of birth record

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A local registrar shall allow an individual to photograph or otherwise copy a birth or death record.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.24 Fees - annual certification by director of health to county treasurers

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(A)(1) The director of health shall, in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code, adopt rules prescribing fees for the following items or services provided by the state office of vital statistics: (a) Except as provided in division (A)(4) of this section:(i) A certified…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.241 Fee for copy of adoption file - adoption records fund

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Not later than ninety days after June 30, 1996, the director of health shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing the fee for providing a copy of the contents of an adoption file pursuant to sections 3107.38 and 3107.47 of the Revised Code.…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.242 Fee for copy of birth or death records - divorce decree filing fee

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(A)(1) The director of health, a person authorized by the director, a local commissioner of health, or a local registrar of vital statistics shall charge and collect a fee of one dollar and fifty cents for each certified copy of a birth record, each certification of birth, and ea…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.25 Local registrar, deputy registrar or sub-registrar to be removed for failing to discharge official duties

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A local registrar of vital statistics, deputy registrar, or sub-registrar who fails to discharge official duties shall, on a recommendation of the health commissioner, forthwith be removed from office by the board of health of the health district that constitutes the primary regi…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.26 Demand for information by state registrar

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Any person having knowledge of the facts shall furnish such information as he may possess regarding any birth, fetal death, or death upon demand of the state registrar.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.27 Matching of birth and death records to protect integrity of vital records

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The director of health may match birth records and death records in accordance with written standards which he shall promulgate in order to protect the integrity of vital records and prevent the fraudulent use of birth records of deceased persons, to prove beyond a reasonable dou…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.28 Prior records valid

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This chapter applies to all birth, fetal death, or death certificates and records, and reports of marriage, divorce, dissolution of marriage, or annulment of marriage received by the department of health prior to the effective date of this section and in the custody of the state …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.29 Prohibited acts

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(A) No person shall do any of the following: (1) Purposely make any false statement in a certificate, record, or report required by this chapter or in an application or amendment of it, or purposely supply false information with the intent that that information be used in the pre…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.30 Statewide birth defects information system

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(A) As used in this section: (1) "Certified nurse-midwife," "clinical nurse specialist," and "certified nurse practitioner" have the same meanings as in section 4723.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Freestanding birthing center" has the same meaning as in section 3701.503 of the Revi…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.31 Purposes of system

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If implemented under section 3705.30 of the Revised Code, the birth defects information system may be used for all of the following purposes:(A) To identify and describe congenital anomalies, stillbirths, and abnormal conditions of newborns;(B) To detect trends and epidemics in c…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.32 Records are confidential - exceptions

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(A) Except as provided in this section, records received and information assembled by the birth defects information system pursuant to section 3705.30 of the Revised Code are confidential medical records. (B)(1) The director of health may use information assembled by the system t…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.33 Parent or legal guardian may request information concerning child to be removed from system

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As used in this section, "local health department" means a health department operated by the board of health of a city or general health district or the authority having the duties of a board of health under section 3709.05 of the Revised Code. A child's parent or legal guardian …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.35 Rules

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Not later than one hundred eighty days after October 5, 2000, the director of health shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to do all of the following: (A) Implement the birth defects information system; (B) Specify the types of congenital anomalies…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.36 Annual report regarding system

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Three years after the date a birth defects information system is implemented pursuant to section 3705.30 of the Revised Code, and annually thereafter, the department of health shall prepare a report regarding the birth defects information system. The department shall file the rep…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.40 Access to preliminary birth and death data maintained by department

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(A) As used in this section: (1) "Board of health" means a board of health of a city or general health district or the authority having the duties of a board of health under section 3709.05 of the Revised Code. (2) "Geocoding" means a geographic information system (GIS) operation…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.41 Vital records training

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(A) As used in this section: (1) "Freestanding birthing center" has the same meaning as in section 3701.503 of the Revised Code. (2) "Funeral services worker" means a person licensed as a funeral director or embalmer under Chapter 4717. of the Revised Code or an individual respon…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3705.99 Penalty

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(A) Whoever violates division (A), (B), or (H) of section 3705.29 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars or incarcerated for a term of not more than five years, or both.(B) Whoever violates division (C), (E), (F), or (G) of section 3705.29 of the Re…