(a) For any stillborn child in this state, the department shall issue a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth within sixty (60) days after a parent named on a report of fetal death submits a request for a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 68-3-514

  • Certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth: means a certificate issued to record the birth of a stillborn child. See Tennessee Code 68-3-102
  • Department: means the department of health. See Tennessee Code 68-3-102
  • Fetal death: means death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of human conception. See Tennessee Code 68-3-102
  • File: means to present a vital record provided for in this chapter for registration by the office of vital records. See Tennessee Code 68-3-102
  • Live birth: means the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of human conception, irrespective of the duration of the pregnancy, that, after 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 Tennessee Code 68-3-102
  • Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Stillbirth: means an unintended, intrauterine fetal death after a gestational age of not less than twenty (20) completed weeks or with a weight of three hundred fifty (350) grams or more. See Tennessee Code 68-3-102
  • Vital records: means certificates or reports of birth, death, marriage, divorce or annulment and other records related thereto. See Tennessee Code 68-3-102
(b) The department shall inform applicable persons or entities licensed by the department of the requirements of this section at time of licensure.
(c) The request for a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth shall be on a form prescribed by the department by rule and must include the date of the stillbirth and the county in which the stillbirth occurred. The request form shall include a space for the parent requesting the certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth to fill in the state file number of the corresponding report of fetal death pursuant to § 68-3-504, if known or applicable.
(d) The certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth shall contain:

(1) The date of the stillbirth;
(2) The county in which the stillbirth occurred;
(3) If a name does not appear on the original or amended report of fetal death and the requesting parent does not wish to provide a name, the office of vital records shall fill in the certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth with the first name left blank and the last name of the parent or parents as provided in part 3 of this chapter;
(4) The state file number of the corresponding report of fetal death; and
(5) The following statement: “This certificate is not proof of live birth.”
(e) A certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth shall not be a public record.
(f)

(1) A parent may request that the office of vital records issue a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth regardless of the date on which the report of fetal death was issued. The requesting party shall be responsible for providing any records necessary for issuing the certificate.
(2) When no report of fetal death is available, then a parent of a stillborn child under this section may request the office of vital records to issue a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth for a stillbirth that occurred prior to July 1, 2010, if it meets the requirements established by this section. The requesting party shall be responsible for providing any records necessary for issuing the certificate. The office shall issue the certificate if the stillbirth is reported to the office in a manner satisfactory to the office.
(g) It is final agency action, not subject to review under the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5, for the office of vital records to refuse to issue a certificate to a person who is not a parent named on the report of fetal death or who is not otherwise entitled to a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth by this section.
(h) The office of vital records may not use a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth to calculate live birth statistics.
(i) The registrar shall prescribe by rules promulgated in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act the fees, the form and content of and process for issuing the certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth.
(j) The registrar of vital records is authorized to set fees which shall not exceed the reasonable cost incurred by the department for processing and filing a new certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth or report of fetal death pursuant to this section or § 68-3-504.
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