Title 18, Title 18: Health

§ 5003. Materials for issuing agents The State Registrar shall procure and send to issuing agents materials as may be necessary for the issuance of vital event certificates. (Amended 2017, No. 46, § 6, eff. July 1, 2019.)

§ 5004. Family Division of the Superior Court; divorce and dissolution returns The Family Division of the Superior Court shall send to the State Registrar, before the 10th day of each month, by county, a report of the number of divorces and dissolutions that became absolute durin…

§ 5005. Unorganized towns and gores The county clerk of a county where an unorganized town or gore is situated shall have the authority, perform the duties, and be subject to the penalties prescribed in this part in relation to vital records with respect to residents of the unorg…

§ 5006. Vital event information published in town reports Town clerks or auditors may publish in the annual town report nonconfidential information and statistics concerning births, marriages, and deaths of residents during the preceding calendar year. Upon request, the State Reg…

§ 5007. Preservation of records A town clerk shall receive, number, and file for record certificates of marriages and burial-transit permits returned to the clerk. A town clerk shall permanently preserve at the office of the clerk birth and death certificates registered prior to …

§ 5008. Town clerk; recording and indexing procedures A town clerk shall file for record and index in volumes all marriage certificates and burial-transit permits received by the town. Each volume or series shall contain an alphabetical index. Civil marriage certificates shall be…

§ 5009. Certified copies to town of residence On the first day of each month, the town clerk shall make a certified copy of each original, corrected, or amended civil marriage certificate or amended civil union certificate filed in the clerk’s office during the preceding month, w…

§ 5010. Transmittal of marriage certificates The town clerk of each town shall each week transmit to the State Registrar copies, duly certified, of each marriage certificate filed in the town in the preceding week. (Amended 1969, No. 265 (Adj. Sess.), § 7; 1979, No. 142 (Adj. Ses…

§ 5011. Penalty (a) A town clerk who fails to transmit copies of marriage certificates as provided in section 5010 of this title shall be fined not more than $100.00. (b) The Commissioner or a hearing officer designated by the Commissioner may, after notice and an opportunity for…

§ 5012. Town clerk to provide general index; marriages and civil unions Except as provided by 24 V.S.A. § 1153, town and county clerks shall prepare and keep a general index to the marriage and civil union records, in alphabetical order and in the following forms, respectively: (…

§ 5014. Confidentiality (a)(1) A vital record, or information in a vital record, that by law is designated confidential or by a similar term, that by law may only be disclosed to specifically designated persons, or that by law is not a public record, is exempt from inspection and…

§ 5016. Birth and death certificates; copies; inspection (a) Access and issuance generally. (1) Except as provided in subdivisions (2) and (3) of this subsection: (A) only the State Registrar and issuing agents may issue certified copies of birth and death certificates registered…

§ 5017. Fees for copies (a) For a certified copy of a vital event certificate, the fee shall be $10.00. (b) The State Registrar shall waive the fee for certified copies of vital event certificates issued to: (1) an individual attesting to a lack of fixed, regular, and adequate ni…