Vital Statistics Act
Colorado · Public Health and Environment · §§ 25-2-101 to 25-2-122 · 28 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
- C.R.S. § 25-2-101Short title
- C.R.S. § 25-2-102Definitions
- C.R.S. § 25-2-103Centralized registration system for all vital statistics
- C.R.S. § 25-2-104Registration of vital statistics
- C.R.S. § 25-2-105Vital statistics, reports, and certificates
- C.R.S. § 25-2-106Reports of marriage
- C.R.S. § 25-2-106.5Reports of civil unions
- C.R.S. § 25-2-107Reports of adoption, dissolution of marriage, parentage, and other court proceedings affecting vital statistics
- C.R.S. § 25-2-107.5Reports of dissolution of civil unions, legal separation of civil unions, or declarations of invalidity of civil unions
- C.R.S. § 25-2-110Certificates of death
- C.R.S. § 25-2-110.5Fetal deaths
- C.R.S. § 25-2-111Dead bodies
- C.R.S. § 25-2-111.5Transfer of fetal tissue from induced termination of pregnancy
- C.R.S. § 25-2-112Certificates of birth
- C.R.S. § 25-2-112.3Certificates of stillbirth
- C.R.S. § 25-2-112.5Social security account numbers
- C.R.S. § 25-2-112.7Crime of misrepresentation of material information in the preparation of a birth certificate
- C.R.S. § 25-2-113New certificates of birth following adoption
- C.R.S. § 25-2-113.5Limited access to information upon consent of all parties
- C.R.S. § 25-2-113.8Birth certificate modernization act1 cite
- C.R.S. § 25-2-114Delayed registration of births and deaths
- C.R.S. § 25-2-115Alteration of reports and certificates
- C.R.S. § 25-2-116Institutions to keep records
- C.R.S. § 25-2-117Certified copies furnished
- C.R.S. § 25-2-118Penalties
- C.R.S. § 25-2-120Reports of electroconvulsive treatment
- C.R.S. § 25-2-121Fee adjustments
- C.R.S. § 25-2-122Heirloom birth and marriage certificates
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