Chapter 65: Public Health

Article 24: Uniform Vital Statistics Act

Statute 65-2402: Duties of secretary of health and environment. The secretary shall: (1) Establish within the division of health suitable offices properly equipped for the preservation of official records. (2) Maintain a complete cross-index on all records filed under the provisions of this act. (3) Install a statewide system of vital statistics. (4) Make and may amend, after notice and hearing, necessary regulations, give instructions and prescribe forms for collection, transcribing, compiling and preserving vital statistics. (5) Enforce this act and the regulations made pursuant thereto.

      History:   L. 1951, ch. 355, § 2; L. 1974, ch. 352, § 120; July 1.