Department: General Powers and Duties

Act 66 of 1953, § 201, under VITAL STATISTICS LAW OF 1953.

Act 66 of 1953, § 201

Section 201. Department: General Powers and Duties.--The department shall, pursuant to the provisions of the act, approved the ninth day of April, one thousand nine hundred twenty-nine (Pamphlet Laws 177), as amended, cited as "The Administrative Code of 1929":

(1) Administer and enforce the provisions of this act and the regulations made pursuant thereto.

(2) Install and maintain a statewide system of vital statistics.

(3) Be the custodian of all vital statistics files and records collected, created or compiled under the provisions of this act.

(4) Have supervisory power over all local registrars appointed under the provisions of this act.