(a) Upon payment of the fee established under 18 V.S.A. § 5017, the Office of Vital Records or the Vermont State Archives and Records Administration shall provide a certified copy of a vital event certificate, or shall ascertain and certify what the vital event certificate shows, except that the word “illegitimate” shall be redacted from any birth certificate furnished. The fee for the search of the vital records is $3.00, which is credited toward the fee for the first certified copy based upon the search.
(b) Fees collected under this section shall be credited to special funds established and managed pursuant to chapter 7, subchapter 5 of this title, and shall be available to the charging departments to offset the costs of providing those services.