§ 65-2401 Definitions
§ 65-2402 Duties of secretary of health and environment; persons offered employment in office of vital statistics, criminal history records check, use of information
§ 65-2405 Appointment of state registrar; qualifications; compensation
§ 65-2406 Duties of state registrar
§ 65-2409a Certificate of birth; requirements; filing; fee for certificate of live birth; parent’s social security number
§ 65-2410 Same; state registrar to prepare and file, when
§ 65-2411 Children of unknown parentage; report to state registrar
§ 65-2412 Registration of deaths and stillbirths; official death records; use of verified forms; establishment and collection of fee; duties of coroners; filing of certificates; Kansas electronic death registration system
§ 65-2414 Delayed determination of cause of death
§ 65-2415 Form of certificates
§ 65-2416 Certificates as evidence; reproduction of records; certification
§ 65-2417 Certified copies or abstracts
§ 65-2418 Fees for copies and searches; free copies of birth certificate, when; disposition; exemptions; copies, abstracts or data furnished to national office of vital statistics
§ 65-2418c Vital statistics integrated information system; revenue bonds authorized for prescribed activities by Kansas development finance authority
§ 65-2418e Civil registration and health statistics fee fund; authorized uses of moneys credited to fund; predecessor fund abolished, moneys and liabilities transferred to new fund
§ 65-2419 Delayed birth certificates
§ 65-2420 Same; procedure
§ 65-2421 Same; evidence
§ 65-2422a Change of name; new certificate of birth issued, when
§ 65-2422b Records of divorces and annulments
§ 65-2422c Minor correction of records
§ 65-2422d Disclosure of records; disclosure of child birth information; monthly reports of deceased residents to county election officers; section not applicable to certain records created prior to July 1, 1911; social security number, availability; fact of deat
§ 65-2423 Adoption cases; birth certificate requirements; foreign country adoption reporting requirements
§ 65-2425 Institution inmates or patients; records and reports
§ 65-2426a Authorization for cremation; when permit to cremate required; penalty for violation
§ 65-2427 Foreign permit for removal, burial, or other disposition of body
§ 65-2428a Permit for transportation of dead body to location outside state
§ 65-2433 Registration of divorces, annulments and adoptions
§ 65-2434 Crimes, prosecution, penalties
§ 65-2435 Invalidity of part
§ 65-2436 Uniformity of interpretation
§ 65-2437 Short title
§ 65-2438 Notification of person transporting dead body for disposition that deceased had an infectious or contagious disease; form; notification of embalmer, funeral director or other person taking possession of body; confidential information; penalties for vio
§ 65-2439 Meriden’s law
§ 65-2440 Certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth
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Terms Used In Kansas Statutes > Chapter 65 > Article 24 - Uniform Vital Statistics Act

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Dead body: means a lifeless human body or such parts of a human body or the bones thereof from the state of which it reasonably may be concluded that death recently occurred. See Kansas Statutes 65-2401
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Gestational age: means the age of the human child as measured in weeks as determined by either the last date of the mother's menstrual period, a sonogram conducted prior to the 20th week of pregnancy or the confirmed known date of conception. See Kansas Statutes 65-2401
  • Induced termination of pregnancy: means abortion, as defined in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 65-2401
  • 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.
  • Juror: A person who is on the jury.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Live birth: means the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a human child, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, which, after such expulsion or extraction, breathes or shows any other evidence of life such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles, whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or the placenta is attached. See Kansas Statutes 65-2401
  • Minor: means any person defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • seal: includes an impression of the seal upon the paper alone, as well as upon wax or a wafer affixed to the paper. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Secretary: means the secretary of health and environment. See Kansas Statutes 65-2401
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Stillbirth: means any complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a human child the gestational age of which is not less than 20 completed weeks, resulting in other than a live birth, as defined in this section, and which is not an induced termination of pregnancy. See Kansas Statutes 65-2401
  • Vital statistics: includes the registration, preparation, transcription, collection, compilation, and preservation of data pertaining to birth, adoption, legitimation, death, stillbirth, marriage, divorce, annulment of marriage, induced termination of pregnancy, and data incidental thereto. See Kansas Statutes 65-2401