TITLE 39

HEALTH AND SAFETY

CHAPTER 2

VITAL STATISTICS

39-244.  Duties of state registrar. The state registrar, under the direction of the director, shall:

(a)  Have charge of the vital statistics unit;

(b)  Be official custodian of all its files and records;

(c)  Perform the duties prescribed by law and the regulations of the board;

(d)  Have supervisory power over local vital statistics registration and local registration officers;

(e)  Enforce this chapter and regulations of the board; and

(f)  Have the authority to delegate portions of the vital records responsibility to the duly appointed local registrar(s).

History:

[39-244, added 1949, ch. 72, sec. 4, p. 117; am. 1974, ch. 23, sec. 64, p. 633; am. 1983, ch. 7, sec. 5, p. 26.]