SECTIONS 102100-102155 - California Statutes

HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE

SECTION 102100-102155

102100. Each live birth, fetal death, death, and marriage that
occurs in the state shall be registered as provided in this part on
the prescribed certificate forms. In addition, a report of every
judgment of dissolution of marriage, legal separation, or nullity
decree shall be filed with the State Registrar, as provided in this
part. All confidential information included in birth, fetal death,
death, and marriage certificates and reports of dissolution of
marriage, legal separation, or nullity that are required to be filed
by this part, shall be exempt from the California Public Records Act
contained in Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7
of Title 1 of the Government Code.

102105. The department is charged with the uniform and thorough
enforcement of this part throughout the state, and may adopt
additional regulations for its enforcement.

102110. The State Registrar shall adopt regulations specifying both
of the following:
(a) Procedures to assure the confidentiality of the confidential
portion of the certificate of live birth, specified in subdivision
(b) of Section 102425, and the medical and health report, specified
in Section 102445.
(b) Procedures regarding access to records required by this part.

102115. The department may make and enforce regulations for the
embalming, cremation, interment, disinterment and transportation of
the dead in matters relating to communicable diseases.

102120. The State Registrar shall inform all local registrars which
diseases are to be considered infectious, contagious, or
communicable and dangerous to the public health, as decided by the
department, in order that when deaths occur in which the diseases are
involved, proper precautions may be taken to prevent their spread.

102125. All certificates of live birth, fetal death, or death shall
be written legibly, in durable black ink, and a certificate is not
complete and correct that does not supply all of the items of
information called for, or satisfactorily account for their omission.

102130. All marriage licenses shall be written legibly and shall be
photographically and micrographically reproducible. A marriage
license is not complete and correct that does not supply all of the
items of information called for, or satisfactorily account for their
omission.

102135. (a) All physicians, informants, funeral directors, clergy,
or judges and all other persons having knowledge of the facts, shall
supply upon the prescribed forms any information that they possess
regarding any birth, fetal death, death, or marriage upon demand of
the state or local registrar.
(b) All physicians, informants, funeral directors, clergy, judges,
public employees, or other persons who supply upon prescribed forms
information that they possess regarding any birth, fetal death,
death, or marriage shall in no case use a derogatory, demeaning, or
colloquial racial or ethnic descriptor.

102140. No alteration or change in any respect shall be made on any
marriage license or certificate after its acceptance for
registration by the local registrar, or on other records made in
pursuance of this part, except where supplemental information
required for statistical purposes is furnished.

102145. Every person in charge of a hospital or other institution
to which persons are admitted for treatment or confinement shall make
a record of the personal, medical and other information for each
patient sufficient and adequate for the completion of a birth or
death certificate.

102150. (a) When objection is made by either parent to the
furnishing of information requested in items (3), (9), and (10) in
the confidential portion of the certificate of live birth, specified
in subdivision (b) of Section 102425, this information shall not be
required to be entered on that portion of the certificate of live
birth.
(b) A parent is not required to disclose his or her social
security number as required by paragraph (14) of subdivision (b) of
Section 102425 if the parent has good cause for not disclosing his or
her social security number. Good cause shall be defined by
regulations adopted by the State Department of Social Services.

102155. "Absence of conflicting information relative to parentage"
as used in Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 102625) or Chapter 11
(commencing with Section 103225) includes entries such as "unknown,"
"not given," "refused to state," or "obviously fictitious names."