Iowa Code 144.5 – Duties of state registrar
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The state registrar shall do all of the following:
1. Administer and enforce this chapter and the rules issued under this chapter, and issue instructions for the efficient administration of the statewide system of vital statistics.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 144.5
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
- State: means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See Iowa Code 152E.3
- State registrar: means the state registrar of vital statistics. See Iowa Code 144.1
- System of vital statistics: includes the registration, collection, preservation, amendment, and certification of vital statistics records, and activities and records related to the records including the data processing, analysis, and publication of statistical data derived from such records. See Iowa Code 144.1
- Vital statistics: means records of births, deaths, fetal deaths, adoptions, marriages, dissolutions, annulments, and data related to the records. See Iowa Code 144.1
2. Direct and supervise the statewide system of vital statistics and be custodian of its records.
3. Direct, supervise, and control the activities of clerks of the district court and county recorders related to the operation of the vital statistics system and provide registrars with necessary postage.
4. Prescribe, print, and distribute the forms required by this chapter and prescribe any other means for transmission of data, as necessary to accomplish complete, accurate reporting.
5. Prepare and publish annual reports of vital statistics of this state and other reports as may be required.
6. Delegate functions and duties vested in the state registrar to officers, to employees of the department, to the clerks of the district court, and to the county registrars as the state registrar deems necessary or expedient.
7. Provide, by rules, for appropriate morbidity reporting.