Florida Vital Statistics Act
Florida · Vital Statistics · §§ 382.001 to 382.356 · 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 3 court decisions.
Most-cited authority: 830 NW2D 335 - Heather Martin Gartner and Melissa Gartner, Individually and as Next Friends of Mackenzie Jean Gartner, a Minor Child v. Iowa Department of Public Health
Sections covered
- Fla. Stat. § 382.001Short title
- Fla. Stat. § 382.002Definitions
- Fla. Stat. § 382.003Powers and duties of the department
- Fla. Stat. § 382.004Reproduction and destruction of records
- Fla. Stat. § 382.005Duties of local registrars
- Fla. Stat. § 382.006Burial-transit permit
- Fla. Stat. § 382.007Final dispositions prohibited without burial-transit permit; records of dead bodies disposed
- Fla. Stat. § 382.008Death, fetal death, and nonviable birth registration
- Fla. Stat. § 382.0085Stillbirth registration
- Fla. Stat. § 382.0086Certificate of nonviable birth
- Fla. Stat. § 382.009Recognition of brain death under certain circumstances
- Fla. Stat. § 382.011Medical examiner determination of cause of death
- Fla. Stat. § 382.012Presumptive death certificate
- Fla. Stat. § 382.013Birth registration1 cite
- Fla. Stat. § 382.0135Social security numbers; enumeration-at-birth program
- Fla. Stat. § 382.015New certificates of live birth; duty of clerks of court and department
- Fla. Stat. § 382.016Amendment of records1 cite
- Fla. Stat. § 382.017Foreign births
- Fla. Stat. § 382.019Delayed registration; administrative procedures
- Fla. Stat. § 382.0195Court-issued delayed birth certificate
- Fla. Stat. § 382.021Department to receive marriage licenses
- Fla. Stat. § 382.022Marriage application fees
- Fla. Stat. § 382.023Department to receive dissolution-of-marriage records; fees
- Fla. Stat. § 382.025Certified copies of vital records; confidentiality; research
- Fla. Stat. § 382.0255Fees
- Fla. Stat. § 382.026Penalties1 cite
- Fla. Stat. § 382.355Birth records of missing children, registrars’ duties
- Fla. Stat. § 382.356Protocol for sharing certain birth certificate information
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