California

Health and Safety Code - HSC

17,661 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 102375 — Special county records of birth certificates and death certificates transmitted and filed with the county recorder under this article shall be open for inspection by the public in accordance with regu
• § 102380 — The county recorder and the local registrar of births and deaths, with the approval and under the supervision of the State Registrar and with the approval of the board of supervisors of any county or
• § 102385 — If a public agency or private nonprofit agency that receives copies of records pursuant to this section is unable to assure the continued preservation and protection of those records for public use, t
• § 102390 — Any record of death and marriage transferred to a public agency or private nonprofit agency pursuant to Section 102380 is exempt from Sections 102230 and 103245.
• § 102395 — Special county records of birth, death, and marriage and the local registrar’s records of birth, death, and marriage shall be subject to Sections 26205.
• § 102400 — Each live birth shall be registered with the local registrar of births and deaths for the district in which the birth occurred within 21 days following the date of the event.
• § 102405 — For live births that occur in a hospital, or a state-licensed alternative birth center, as defined in paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) of Section 1204, the administrator of the hospital or center or a
• § 102410 — For those live births occurring in a hospital, and upon a parent’s request, a footprint shall be taken of the child prior to discharge from the facility and shall be made available to the parents.
• § 102415 — For live births that occur outside of a hospital or outside of a state-licensed alternative birth center, as defined in paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) of Section 1204, the physician in attendance at
• § 102425 — (a) The certificate of live birth shall contain those items necessary to establish the fact of the birth and shall contain only the following information: (1) Full name and sex of the child.
• § 102425.1 — (a) Notwithstanding Sections 102465 and 102470, the State Registrar of Vital Statistics, with regard to identification of the parents, shall modify the certificate of live birth to do both of the foll
• § 102425.2 — (a) If the birth mother is one of the parents listed on the certificate of live birth pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section 102425, the birth mother’s name, date of birth, and place
• § 102426 — (a) (1) In addition to the items of information collected pursuant to Section 102425, the State Registrar shall instruct all local registrars that have automated birth registration to electronically c
• § 102430 — (a) The second section of the certificate of live birth as specified in subdivision (b) of Section 102425, the electronic file of birth information collected pursuant to subparagraphs (B) to (I), incl
• § 102440 — Notwithstanding Sections 102425 and 102430, the department may transmit to the Social Security Administration the information necessary to issue a social security number to a child in a case where the
• § 102445 — After public hearing and consultation with the Vital Statistics Advisory Committee, the State Registrar shall adopt regulations specifying the contents of a medical and health report and shall supply
• § 102447 — Notwithstanding Section 102430, a parent’s social security number contained in the confidential medical and social information portion of the child’s certificate of live birth shall be accessible to t
• § 102450 — (a) For each registration of live birth submitted to the local registrar pursuant to Section 102400, the hospital administrator, or the person’s representative, shall submit a completed medical and he
• § 102455 — (a) The medical and health report required pursuant to Section 102445 shall be clearly labeled “Confidential Information for Public Health Use Only.
• § 102460 — With the exception of statistical tabulation purposes, the medical and health report shall be kept confidential and access to the report shall be limited to the following persons: (a) State and local
• § 102465 — (a) The State Registrar shall appoint a Vital Statistics Advisory Committee that shall have the following duties: (1) Review and make recommendations to the State Registrar as to the adequacy of proce
• § 102470 — The State Registrar shall publish within 30 days of receipt of recommendations by the Vital Statistics Advisory Committee, made pursuant to Section 102465, (1) a list of the recommendations adopted, a
• § 102475 — (a) Any person who releases a copy of the confidential portion of the certificate of live birth, except as specifically provided by this part, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of
• § 102500 — A certificate of finding of an unidentified live child of less than one year of age shall be registered with the local registrar of births and deaths by the person or institution with whom the child i
• § 102505 — The certificate shall include the name, sex, color or race, the date and place of finding, and the name of the person or institution with whom the child is placed.
• § 102510 — The person or institution with whom the child is placed shall give the child a name; the place in which the child is found shall be known as the legal place of birth; and the date of birth shall be de
• § 102515 — The certificate of finding shall be handled in the same manner and shall serve all the purposes of a certificate of live birth.
• § 102520 — If the child is later identified and a certificate of birth found or obtained, the fact shall be reported to the State Registrar and he or she shall enter this upon the certificate of finding, with ci
• § 102525 — This chapter is not exclusive of Chapters 3 (commencing with Section 102400) and 12 (commencing with Section 103450), but offer an alternative method of establishing a record of birth.
• § 102530 — Delayed certificates of birth issued pursuant to this chapter shall not be considered as evidence in any action or proceeding involving estates of decedents or in any proceeding to establish heirship
• § 102535 — An application may be filed with the State Registrar for the delayed registration of birth of any person born in this state whose birth is not registered.
• § 102550 — The application shall be made on the forms prescribed and furnished by the State Registrar and shall contain information and shall be accompanied by affidavits and documentary evidence as required to
• § 102575 — “Affidavit,” as used in this chapter, is defined as a written statement executed under oath by a person who at the time of birth was at least 5 years old and had knowledge of the facts of birth and sh
• § 102580 — “Documentary evidence,” as used in this chapter, is defined as original or certified copies of a record that was executed at least five years prior to the date of application, and that substantiates t
• § 102585 — For births that are being registered under this chapter there shall be required documentary evidence and affidavits pursuant to one of the following: (a) Two pieces of documentary evidence, at least o
• § 102600 — (a) Upon receipt by the State Registrar of an application for delayed registration of birth and payment of the required fee, he or she shall review the application together with the affidavits and doc
• § 102605 — The State Registrar shall send a certified copy of the delayed certificate of birth to the applicant without additional cost.
• § 102610 — The State Registrar shall send certified copies of the delayed certificate of birth to the local registrar and the county recorder within which area the birth occurred and in whose offices copies of r
• § 102625 — The clerk of the court shall complete a report upon a form provided for that purpose and forward the report to the State Registrar within five days after a decree of adoption has been entered declarin
• § 102630 — The court reports of adoption that are received by the State Registrar for births that occurred in another state, the District of Columbia, in any territory of the United States, or Canada shall be tr
• § 102635 — A new birth certificate shall be established by the State Registrar upon receipt of either of the following: (a) A report of adoption from any court of record that has jurisdiction of the child in thi
• § 102640 — When requested by the adopting parent or parents, a new certificate shall not be established by the State Registrar.
• § 102645 — The new birth certificate shall bear the name of the child as shown in the report of adoption, the names and ages of his or her adopting parents, the date and place of birth, and no reference shall be
• § 102650 — Notwithstanding other provisions in this article, when a child is adopted by an unmarried man or woman, the new certificate shall, if the adopting parent so requests, reflect the fact that it is a sin
• § 102660 — If both adopting parents were in the home at the time of the initial placement of the child for adoption the newly amended birth record may include the names of both adopting parents despite the death
• § 102670 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an adopting parent who has adopted a child for whom an amended record has already been prepared under authority of this article may have another amended rec
• § 102675 — At any time after the issuance of a new birth certificate another amended certificate may be issued, at the request of the adopting parents, that omits any or all of the following: (a) The specific na
• § 102680 — The new birth certificate shall supplant any birth certificate previously registered for the child and shall be the only birth certificate open to public inspection.
• § 102685 — When a new birth certificate is established under this article, the State Registrar shall inform the local registrar and the county recorder whose records contain copies of the original certificate, w
• § 102690 — For court reports of adoptions received from any court of record of this State, another state, the District of Columbia, or in any territory of the United States, that has jurisdiction of a child born
• § 102695 — A court report of adoption received from any court of record in this State, wherein the birth occurred outside the United States, the Territories of the United States, or Canada shall constitute a cou
• § 102700 — The court report of adoption shall be filed with the original record of birth, that shall remain as a part of the records of the State Registrar.
• § 102705 — All records and information specified in this article, other than the newly issued birth certificate, shall be available only upon the order of the superior court of the county of residence of the ado
• § 102710 — The State Registrar shall furnish a certified copy of the newly amended record of birth prepared under authority of this article to the registrant without additional cost.
• § 102725 — Whenever the existence or nonexistence of the parent and child relationship has been determined by a court of this state or a court of another state, and upon receipt of a certified copy of the court
• § 102730 — All records and information specified in this article, other than the newly issued birth certificate, shall be available only upon order of a court of record.
• § 102735 — The State Registrar shall furnish a certified copy of the newly amended record of birth prepared under authority of this article to the registrant without additional cost.
• § 102750 — Whenever the mother and the other genetic parent or intended parent acknowledges parentage of a child by affidavit, and in the absence of conflicting information on the originally registered certifica
• § 102755 — Upon receipt of the application and payment of the required fee, and in the absence of conflicting information on the originally registered certificate of live birth, the State Registrar shall review
• § 102760 — All records and information specified in this article, other than the newly issued birth certificate, shall be available only upon order of a court of record.
• § 102765 — The State Registrar shall furnish a certified copy of the new record of birth prepared under authority of this article to the registrant with additional cost.
• § 102766 — (a) When a voluntary declaration of parentage is filed with the Department of Child Support Services pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 7571 of the Family Code, an application may be submitted to
• § 102767 — (a) When a voluntary declaration of parentage is rescinded pursuant to Section 7575 of the Family Code, an application may be submitted to the State Registrar requesting that the signatory’s name be r
• § 102768 — All records and information specified in this article, other than the newly established certificate, shall be available only to those persons specified in subdivision (i) of Section 7571 of the Family
• § 102769 — The State Registrar shall furnish a certified copy of the new record of birth prepared under authority of this article to the registrant without additional cost.
• § 102775 — Each death shall be registered with the local registrar of births and deaths in the district in which the death was officially pronounced or the body was found, within eight calendar days after death
• § 102778 — (a) On or before January 1, 2005, the department shall implement an Internet-based electronic death registration system for the creation, storage, and transfer of death registration information.
• § 102780 — A funeral director, or person acting in lieu thereof, shall prepare the certificate and register it with the local registrar.
• § 102785 — The State Registrar, at his or her discretion, may incorporate computer or telephone facsimile technology, or both, in the statewide program of death and fetal death registration, including, but not l
• § 102790 — The funeral director shall obtain the required information other than medical and health section data from the person or source best qualified to supply this information.
• § 102791 — (a) (1) The State Department of Public Health shall access data within the electronic death registration system implemented pursuant to Section 102778 to compile a report on veteran suicide in Califor
• § 102792 — (a) (1) The State Department of Public Health shall access data within the electronic death registration system implemented pursuant to Section 102778 to compile a report on veteran drug overdose deat
• § 102795 — (a) The medical and health section data and the time of death shall be completed and attested to by the physician and surgeon or nurse practitioner last in attendance.
• § 102800 — (a) The medical and health section data and the physician’s, nurse practitioner’s, or coroner’s certification shall be completed by the attending physician or nurse practitioner within 15 hours after
• § 102805 — An embalmer may authorize his or her signature to be affixed to the certificate after he or she has embalmed a body, as required by this chapter, by a written special power of attorney that shall be r
• § 102825 — (a) The physician and surgeon last in attendance, or in the case of a patient in a skilled nursing or intermediate care facility at the time of death, the physician and surgeon last in attendance or a
• § 102850 — A physician and surgeon, physician assistant, funeral director, or other person shall immediately notify the coroner when they have knowledge of a death that occurred or has charge of a body in which
• § 102855 — The coroner whose duty it is to investigate such deaths shall ascertain as many as possible of the facts required by this chapter.
• § 102860 — The coroner shall state on the certificate of death the disease or condition directly leading to death, antecedent causes, other significant conditions contributing to death and other medical and heal
• § 102865 — In any case involving an infant under the age of one year where the gross autopsy results in a presumed diagnosis of sudden infant death syndrome, the coroner shall, within 24 hours of the gross autop
• § 102870 — (a) In deaths investigated by the coroner or medical examiner where he or she is unable to establish the identity of the body or human remains by visual means, fingerprints, or other identifying data,
• § 102875 — The certificate of death shall be divided into two sections: (a) The first section shall contain those items necessary to establish the fact of the death, including all of the following and those othe
• § 102900 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Birth and death certificate-linking studies done by the department in 1974 and repeated in 1984, show unacceptably high rates of error in t
• § 102905 — (a) The Rural Health Division of the department shall cause to be undertaken a three-year study for the purpose of establishing more valid statistics regarding American Indian death rates, including r
• § 102910 — For the purpose of conducting the three-year study required pursuant to Section 102905, the department is hereby encouraged to contract with a federally recognized tribe or tribal organization or an A
• § 102915 — The study shall be conducted in three phases, as follows: (a) Phase one of the study shall include research design and data acquisition, including funds for the purchase of data from tribal, federal,
• § 102925 — The state department shall begin to implement the activities referred to in Sections 102905, 102910, 102915, and 102920 only upon an appropriation for the specific purpose of funding the activities.
• § 102935 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) There is a lack of understanding about the relationship between risk of violent death, such as suicide or homicide, and an individual’s sex
• § 102936 — (a) The department shall establish a three-year pilot program in up to six counties that agree to participate, for the identification and collection by coroners and medical examiners of gender identit
• § 102937 — (a) The coroner or medical examiner shall begin data collection upon completion of the training.
• § 102938 — This article shall become inoperative on the date the State Public Health Officer certifies that the final year of data from the pilot program has been submitted to the California Violent Death Report
• § 102950 — (a) Each fetal death in which the fetus has advanced to or beyond the 20th week of uterogestation shall be registered with the local registrar of births and deaths of the district in which the fetal d
• § 102955 — A funeral director, or if there is no funeral director, the person acting in lieu thereof, shall prepare the certificate and register it with the local registrar.
• § 102960 — A funeral director, or if there is no funeral director, the person acting in lieu thereof, shall obtain the required information other than medical and health section data from the person or source be
• § 102970 — (a) The department shall regularly, but no less than annually, review fetal death registrations completed pursuant to this chapter to determine whether there is a failure to comply with the required t
• § 102975 — (a) The physician or nurse practitioner, if any, in attendance on the delivery of a fetus shall, within 15 hours after the delivery, state on the certificate of fetal death the time of fetal death or
• § 103005 — (a) The coroner shall, within three days after examination of the fetus, state on the certificate of fetal death the time of fetal death, the direct causes of the fetal death, the conditions, if any,
• § 103025 — The certificate of fetal death shall contain items as may be designated by the State Registrar and shall be divided into two sections.
• § 103040 — This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Missing Angels Act.
• § 103040.1 — (a) The local registrar of births and deaths of the county in which a fetal death, in which the fetus has advanced beyond the 20th week of uterogestation, is registered, shall issue, upon the request
• § 103050 — (a) A person shall not dispose of human remains unless both of the following have occurred: (1) There has been obtained and filed with a local registrar a death certificate, as provided in Chapter 6 (
• § 103055 — (a) If the certificate of death is properly executed and complete, the local registrar of births and deaths shall issue a permit for disposition that, in all cases, shall specify any one of the follow
• § 103060 — (a) A permit for disposition for the purpose of removing cremated remains or hydrolyzed human remains from the place of cremation, hydrolysis, or interment shall include a description of the final pla
• § 103065 — (a) Upon the presentation of a certificate of death properly executed and completed in accordance with the policies and procedures of the county coroner in which the death occurred that are not in con
• § 103070 — The body of any person whose death occurs in this state, or whose body is found in the state, or that is brought in from outside the state, shall not be temporarily held pending disposition more than
• § 103075 — Except when a permit is not required to be issued pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 103050, the permit shall accompany the body to its destination, where, if within this state, it shall be delive
• § 103080 — (a) The person in charge of the place of interment, or the funeral director or person acting as funeral director if no person is in charge, shall sign the permit, endorse upon it the date of interment
• § 103085 — When human remains are transported from outside the state into a registration district in California for interment, the permit for disposition, issued in accordance with the law and health regulations
• § 103090 — This chapter does not prevent a funeral director from removing a body from the registration district where the death occurred or the body was found to another registration district in the same or anot
• § 103095 — A permit issued in one county or city is valid and sufficient in any county it specifies as the place of interment.
• § 103100 — If any cemetery is located partly in one registration district and partly in another, only one permit shall be required for interment and a permit authorizing interment in the cemetery shall entitle i
• § 103105 — Permits for the disinterment or removal of interred remains shall be required, as specified in Part 2 (commencing with Section 7500) of Division 7.
• § 103125 — The forms for the marriage license shall be prescribed by the State Registrar.
• § 103150 — Each marriage that is performed shall be registered by the person performing the ceremony as provided by Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 420) of Part 3 of Division 3 of the Family Code.
• § 103175 — (a) The marriage license shall contain as nearly as can be ascertained all of the following and other items as the State Registrar may designate: (1) The first section shall include the personal data
• § 103180 — (a) Sections 103150 and 103175 do not apply to marriages entered into pursuant to Section 307 of the Family Code.
• § 103200 — The clerk of the court of each county shall send a copy of every judgment of dissolution of marriage, of legal separation, and of declaration of nullity to the State Registrar monthly.
• § 103205 — The State Registrar shall maintain a comprehensive and continuous index of all decrees received under Section 103200.
• § 103206.1 — (a) The center shall meet the following requirements with regard to the disclosure of information to qualified researchers: (1) The center shall develop a comprehensive program for the use, access, an
• § 103206.2 — (a) (1) In granting access to qualified researchers or a public health authority pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 103206.
• § 103225 — Whenever the facts are not correctly stated in any certificate of birth, death, fetal death, or marriage already registered, the person asserting that the error exists may make an affidavit under oath
• § 103227 — (a) (1) Beginning July 1, 2026, if a name is not accurately recorded because of the absence of a diacritical mark on an English letter in any certificate of live birth, fetal death, death, or marriage
• § 103230 — Section 103225 shall be applicable to certificates of birth only in the absence of conflicting information relative to the existence or nonexistence of a parent and child relationship, as this term is
• § 103235 — If the amendment relates to a certificate or marriage license that has not been transmitted to the State Registrar, the local registrar shall review the amendment for acceptance for filing, and if acc
• § 103240 — If the amendment relates to a certificate that has been transmitted to the State Registrar, the amendment shall be transmitted to the State Registrar who shall review it for acceptance for filing.
• § 103245 — If the amendment is accepted, the State Registrar shall transmit copies of the amendment to the county recorder in whose offices copies of the original record and information are on file.
• § 103250 — The State Registrar shall send a certified copy of the newly amended record of birth, death or marriage to the applicant without additional charge, except for those amendments that are filed within on
• § 103255 — The amendment shall be filed with and become a part of the record to which it pertains.
• § 103260 — (a) A person born in this state whose birth is registered in this state, or the person’s conservator, or if a minor, the person’s parent or guardian, may submit a written request to the state registra
• § 103265 — An amended certificate of death of an individual who is a peace officer pursuant to Section 830 of the Penal Code, who was killed in the line of duty, shall be processed immediately upon acceptance fo
• § 103275 — The coroner having jurisdiction shall register with the local registrar of births and deaths a certificate of death giving the name of the person and all statistical particulars that have been discove
• § 103280 — This amendment to the record shall be handled in the manner prescribed in Article 1 (commencing with Section 103225).
• § 103300 — (a) Notwithstanding other provisions in this part relative to amendment of records, whenever the information originally furnished in the medical and health data section of any record of death, fetal d
• § 103305 — This amendment shall be handled in the manner prescribed in Article 1 (commencing with Section 103225).
• § 103325 — When any certificate of birth of a living child is registered without the name of the child being entered thereon, the local registrar shall make out and deliver to the parents of the child a special
• § 103330 — The parents shall complete the report and return it to the local registrar as soon as the child is named.
• § 103335 — The State Registrar shall send a certified copy of the newly amended record of birth to the applicant without additional cost, except for those amendments that are filed within one year of the date of
• § 103340 — This amendment to the record shall be handled in the manner prescribed in Article 1 (commencing with Section 103225).
• § 103350 — The purpose of this article is to provide a remedy for correction of birth certificates that contain entries regarding race or color that, in the opinion of the registrant, constitute racial slurs or
• § 103355 — Any person who was born in this state and whose birth is registered in this state may apply to the State Registrar for the establishment and issuance of a new birth certificate and the sealing of the
• § 103360 — Upon receipt of the application and payment of the required fee, the State Registrar shall establish a new birth certificate for the person.
• § 103365 — The entry for race or color in the new certificate shall be as indicated in the application.
• § 103370 — The State Registrar shall transmit a certified copy of a birth certificate newly established under this article to the registrant without additional charge.
• § 103375 — When a new birth certificate is established pursuant to this article, the State Registrar shall inform the local registrar and the county recorder whose records contain copies of the original certific
• § 103400 — (a) If a person who has a birth certificate issued by this state has their name changed by order of a court of this state, another state, the District of Columbia, any territory of the United States,
• § 103405 — Upon receipt of the application, affidavit, certified copy of the court order and payment of the required fee, the State Registrar shall review the amendment for acceptance for filing, and if accepted
• § 103410 — The State Registrar shall furnish a certified copy of the newly amended record of birth prepared under authority of this article to the registrant without additional cost.
• § 103425 — (a) A person may file a petition with the superior court in any county seeking a judgment recognizing the change of gender and sex identifier to female, male, or nonbinary.
• § 103426 — (a) The State Registrar shall issue a new birth certificate reflecting a change of gender and sex identifier to female, male, or nonbinary without a court order for any person who has a birth certific
• § 103430 — (a) A petition for a court order to recognize a change in the petitioner’s gender and sex identifier as female, male, or nonbinary and to direct the issuance of new administrative documents to reflect
• § 103431 — (a) (1) If a judgment pursuant to Section 103430 includes an order for a new birth certificate for the petitioner and if the petitioner has a birth certificate issued by this state, a certified copy o
• § 103435 — (a) In lieu of separate proceedings, a single petition may be filed with the superior court to change the petitioner’s name and recognize the change to the petitioner’s gender and sex identifier and,
• § 103437 — (a) As used in this section, “change of name or gender and sex identifier, or both” means a proceeding for a change of gender and sex identifier pursuant to Section 103430, for a combined change of th
• § 103440 — (a) The new birth certificate, marriage license and certificate, or confidential marriage license and certificate established pursuant to this article shall supplant any birth certificate, marriage li
• § 103443 — (a) The State Registrar shall transmit a certified copy of a birth certificate newly established under this article to the registrant without additional charge.
• § 103445 — This article shall become operative on January 1, 2023.
• § 103446 — It is the intent of the Legislature that this article provide a remedy for the correction of birth certificates that contain gender errors made by the birthing hospital or local registrar when complet
• § 103447 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any person born in this state, or, in the case of a minor or incompetent person, his or her parent, legal guardian, or conservator, may apply t
• § 103447.5 — Upon receipt of the application and sworn affidavit or affidavits, and upon payment of the fee required by Section 103700, the State Registrar shall establish a new birth certificate for the person.
• § 103448 — The new birth certificate established pursuant to this article shall in no way indicate that it is not the original birth certificate of the applicant.
• § 103448.5 — The State Registrar shall transmit a certified copy of a birth certificate established pursuant to this article to the applicant, without additional charge.
• § 103449 — (a) When a new birth certificate is established pursuant to this article, the State Registrar shall so inform the local registrar and the county recorder whose records contain copies of the original c
• § 103450 — (a) A verified petition may be filed by any beneficially interested person with the clerk of the superior court in and for (1) the county in which the birth, death, or marriage is alleged to have occu
• § 103451 — (a) For purposes of this chapter, “mass fatalities incident” means a situation in which any of the following conditions exist: (1) There are more dead bodies than can be handled using local resources.
• § 103455 — The petition shall be verified and shall contain all the facts necessary to enable the court to determine the fact of and the time and place of the birth, death, or marriage upon the proofs adduced in
• § 103460 — If the time and place of birth are not known, the petition shall contain all of the facts known to the petitioner or otherwise available and a statement of the probable time and place of birth as accu
• § 103465 — Upon the filing of the petition a hearing shall be fixed by the clerk and at the convenience of the court set at a time not less than five nor more than 10 days after the filing of the petition.
• § 103466 — Notwithstanding Section 103465, upon the filing of a petition for a determination of the fact of death in the event of a mass fatalities incident, the clerk shall set a hearing no later than 15 days f
• § 103470 — The fee for filing the petition is two hundred five dollars ($205).
• § 103475 — If, upon the hearing, the allegations of the petition are established to the satisfaction of the court, the court may make an order determining that the birth, death, or marriage did in fact occur at
• § 103480 — If the time and place of birth are not known, the court shall receive and consider evidence and testimony as may be available and from the facts adduced may, by order, fix the time and place that the
• § 103485 — The order shall be made in the form and upon the blank prescribed and furnished by the State Registrar and shall become effective upon a filing of a certified copy with the State Registrar.
• § 103490 — (a) The State Registrar shall send certified copies of the court order delayed certificate to the local registrar and the county recorder within the area in which the event occurred and in whose offic
• § 103501 — A county recorder shall issue a certified copy of a foreign birth or death recorded in the office of the county recorder only as an official record of the county recorder, as defined in subdivision (a
• § 103505 — (a) A certification of birth or death outside of the United States shall not be recorded by the county recorder.
• § 103525 — (a) The State Registrar, local registrar, or county recorder shall, upon request and payment of the required fee, supply to an applicant a certified copy of the record of a birth, fetal death, death,
• § 103525.5 — (a) (1) Until January 1, 2006, in addition to the fees prescribed by Sections 103625 and 103626, an applicant for a certified copy of a birth or death record shall pay an additional fee of two dollars
• § 103526 — (a) (1) If the State Registrar, local registrar, or county recorder receives a written, faxed, electronic, or digitized image of a request for a certified copy of a birth, death, or marriage record pu
• § 103526.5 — (a) Each certified copy of a birth, death, or marriage record issued pursuant to Section 103525 shall include the date issued, the name of the issuing officer, the signature of the issuing officer, wh
• § 103526.6 — (a) The State Registrar, in consultation with the County Recorders’ Association of California and other stakeholders, shall study all security features for paper used to print a vital record pursuant
• § 103527 — (a) The State Registrar shall appoint a Vital Records Protection Advisory Committee to study and make recommendations to protect individual privacy, inhibit identity theft, and prevent fraud involving
• § 103528 — The department may create an automated system for the purposes of implementing Sections 103525, 103525.
• § 103530 — Certified copies of certificates of births shall be issued only when the applicant for the certified copy is able to furnish information, exclusive of file numbers, adequate for identification and loc
• § 103535 — Upon application of a parent, the local registrar or county recorder shall request a copy of a new birth certificate amended under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 102625) from the State Registrar.
• § 103540 — Prior to issuing a certified copy of a birth record, the State Registrar, local registrar, or county recorder shall determine whether their respective birth records or index to the records have been r
• § 103545 — Certified copies of birth, fetal death, death, and marriage records may be made only by the State Registrar, by duly appointed and acting local registrars during their term of office, and by county re
• § 103550 — Any birth, fetal death, death, or marriage record that was registered within a period of one year from the date of the event under the provisions of this part, or any copy of the record or part thereo
• § 103555 — A short form of certification of birth registration that shall contain only identification information may be issued by the State Registrar, by the county recorder, or by any local registrar.