Idaho Vital Statistics Act
Idaho · Health and Safety · §§ 39-201 to 39-279 · 52 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 4 court decisions.
Most-cited authority: 286 FSUPP3D 1131 - F.V. v. Barron
Sections covered
- Idaho Code § 39-201— 39-210. Jurisdiction of department of public welfare — Local registration districts — Local registrars — Dead bodies — Stillborn children — Death certificates — Burial permits — Disinterment. [Repealed.]
- Idaho Code § 39-211[Amended and redesignated.]
- Idaho Code § 39-212Duties of sexton. [Repealed.]
- Idaho Code § 39-213Transportation of bodies of persons dying of certain diseases
- Idaho Code § 39-214— 39-217. Registration of births — Duties of physicians and midwives — Certificates of birth — Given names. [Repealed.]
- Idaho Code § 39-218[Amended and redesignated.]
- Idaho Code § 39-219— 39-221. Affidavit of legitimation — Correction of certificates of birth, death and marriage. [Repealed.]
- Idaho Code § 39-222— 39-234. Registration of physicians, midwives, and undertakers — Statistical records and forms — Compensation of local registrars — Fees — Penalties — County recorder — Fees — Failure to perform duties — Punishment. [Repealed.]
- Idaho Code § 39-235— 39-239. [Reserved.]
- Idaho Code § 39-240Short title — Legislative findings
- Idaho Code § 39-241Definitions1 cite
- Idaho Code § 39-242Duties of director
- Idaho Code § 39-243State registrar of vital statistics
- Idaho Code § 39-244Duties of state registrar
- Idaho Code § 39-245Certificate forms
- Idaho Code § 39-245ACertificates of birth — Material facts included — Amendments
- Idaho Code § 39-246Local registration districts
- Idaho Code § 39-247Local registration officers
- Idaho Code § 39-248Other employees
- Idaho Code § 39-249Transmittal of certificates and local records
- Idaho Code § 39-250Completion and correction of certificates — Procedure — Other alterations prohibited1 cite
- Idaho Code § 39-251Compensation of local registrars
- Idaho Code § 39-252Fee for copies, searches and other services — Death certificates
- Idaho Code § 39-253Accounting for fees
- Idaho Code § 39-254Payment of fees to local registration officers
- Idaho Code § 39-255Registration of births
- Idaho Code § 39-256Registration of foundlings
- Idaho Code § 39-257Marriage of natural parents of person born in Idaho — Judicial determination of parentage of person born in Idaho — New birth certificates — Procedure
- Idaho Code § 39-258Adoption of persons born in Idaho — New birth certificate issued to replace original certificate — Procedure — Adoption proceedings not open to inspection with certain exceptions — Duties of the clerks of courts issuing adoption decrees — Duties of state registrar of vital statistics
- Idaho Code § 39-259Adoption of persons born in foreign countries
- Idaho Code § 39-259AVoluntary adoption registry for providing limited access to birth information of adult adoptees
- Idaho Code § 39-260Registration of deaths and stillbirths
- Idaho Code § 39-260ATransportation of dead human bodies. [Repealed.]
- Idaho Code § 39-261Induced abortion reporting forms — Compilations1 cite
- Idaho Code § 39-262Registration of marriage — Marriage certificates filed
- Idaho Code § 39-263Marriage license fees
- Idaho Code § 39-264Registration of persons authorized to perform marriage ceremony. [Repealed.]
- Idaho Code § 39-265Registration of divorces — Annulments of marriage
- Idaho Code § 39-266Fee for court clerk
- Idaho Code § 39-267Delayed registration1 cite
- Idaho Code § 39-268Authorization for final disposition
- Idaho Code § 39-269Disinterment — Rules
- Idaho Code § 39-270Disclosure of information
- Idaho Code § 39-271Records of institutions
- Idaho Code § 39-272Duties to provide information
- Idaho Code § 39-273Penalties
- Idaho Code § 39-274Evidentiary character of records and copies of records
- Idaho Code § 39-275Applicability
- Idaho Code § 39-276Uniformity of interpretation
- Idaho Code § 39-277Autopsies for suspected Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- Idaho Code § 39-278Procedure for delayed registration or amendment of vital record
- Idaho Code § 39-279Severability
Enacted in other states
Download
Copy
Embed on your site
Hover to preview · click to copy the code