Sec. 17. (a) The local health officer shall collect, record, and report to the state department the vital statistics for the local health officer’s area of jurisdiction.

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Terms Used In Indiana Code 16-20-1-17

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
     (b) The local health officer shall be the registrar of births and deaths. After making a birth or death record, the local health officer shall, by the fourth day of each month, forward the original record to the state department.

[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-4-4.]

As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.3.

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