193.075. Certificates and reports, form, format, contents.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

193.075. Certificates and reports, form, format, contents.

Certificates and reports, form, format, contents.

193.075. 1. The forms of certificates and reports required by sections193.005 to 193.325 or by regulations adopted hereunder shall include as aminimum the items recommended by the federal agency responsible for nationalvital statistics.

2. Each certificate, report, and other document required by sections193.005 to 193.325 shall be on a form or in a format prescribed by the stateregistrar.

3. All vital records shall contain the date received for registration.

4. Information required in certificates or reports authorized bysections 193.005 to 193.325 may be filed and registered by photographic,electronic, or other means as prescribed by the state registrar.

5. In addition to other personal data required by the registrar to beentered on a birth certificate, each parent shall furnish to the registrar theSocial Security account number, or numbers if applicable, issued to the parentunless the registrar finds good cause for not requiring the furnishing of suchnumber or numbers. Good cause shall be determined in accordance withregulations established by the Secretary of the United States Department ofHealth and Human Services. The registrar shall make numbers furnished underthis section available to the division of child support enforcement of thedepartment of social services. Such numbers shall not be recorded on thebirth certificate. The division of child support enforcement shall not useany Social Security number furnished under the section for any purpose otherthan for the establishment and enforcement of child support obligations, andthe confidentiality provisions and penalties contained in section 454.440,RSMo, shall apply. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit thedepartment of health and senior services from using Social Security numbersfor statistical purposes.