Vital Statistics Act

Alaska · Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender · §§ 18.50.010 to 18.50.990 · 48 sections

Overview

The Vital Statistics Act governs the official recording of life events — births, deaths, fetal deaths, adoptions, paternity determinations, and terminations of pregnancy — and creates a centralized vital statistics program headed by a state registrar, supported by local and deputy registrars and implemented through administrative regulations. It requires the timely filing of birth and death certificates, specifies who must report and what each record must contain, and provides procedures for delayed, amended, presumptive, and newly established certificates, including sealing original records after adoption or a change in parentage. It also regulates conduct that depends on those records, such as authorizing burial, cremation, disinterment, and the disposition of unclaimed or fetal remains, and directs that certain reported data be compiled into public statistical reports.

Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.

In the courts

Sections of this act have been cited in 1 court decision.

Most-cited authority: 107 F.4th 548 - Kayla Gore v. William Lee

Sections covered

AS 18.50.010Bureau of Vital Statistics
AS 18.50.020Department to adopt regulations
AS 18.50.030Appointment of state registrar of vital statistics
AS 18.50.040Duties of state registrar
AS 18.50.050Delegation of duties
AS 18.50.060Seal
AS 18.50.070Registration districts
AS 18.50.080Appointment of local registrars
AS 18.50.090Duties of local registrars
AS 18.50.100Keeping of permanent records
AS 18.50.110Duties of deputy local registrar
AS 18.50.120Compensation of local registrars
AS 18.50.130Subregistrars
AS 18.50.140Payment of fees to local registrars and others
AS 18.50.150Form of certificate
AS 18.50.160Birth registration
AS 18.50.162Notification about hearing screening
AS 18.50.165Acknowledgement of paternity; forms
AS 18.50.170Foundling registration
AS 18.50.180Delayed registration of birth
AS 18.50.190Delayed registration of death or marriage
AS 18.50.200Judicial procedure to establish facts of birth
AS 18.50.210Court reports of adoption
AS 18.50.211Certificate of birth for foreign-born adopted person
AS 18.50.220New certificate of birth
AS 18.50.225Birth certificates suitable for display
AS 18.50.230Death registration; disclosure for child support purposes
AS 18.50.235Certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth
AS 18.50.240Fetal death registration
AS 18.50.245Report of induced termination of pregnancy
AS 18.50.250Permits
AS 18.50.260Extension of time
AS 18.50.270Marriage registration
AS 18.50.272Heirloom certificates of marriage suitable for display
AS 18.50.280Court reports of divorce, dissolution, and annulment
AS 18.50.290Corrections and amendments1 cite
AS 18.50.300Reproduction of records
AS 18.50.310Disclosure of records
AS 18.50.315Records of missing children
AS 18.50.320Copies of data from vital records
AS 18.50.330Fees for services
AS 18.50.340Persons required to keep records
AS 18.50.350Duty to furnish information
AS 18.50.500Identity of biological parents
AS 18.50.510Descriptive information regarding biological parents
AS 18.50.900Prohibited acts and penalties
AS 18.50.950Definitions
AS 18.50.990Short title

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