STATE STATUTES & CODES

NEW JERSEY STATUTES AND CODES

Section 26:8

• 26:8-1 - Definitions
• 26:8-2 - Registration district
• 26:8-3 - Consolidation of districts
• 26:8-4 - Duty to furnish information relative to birth, death, marriage, civil union, domestic partnership
• 26:8-5 - Institutional records
• 26:8-6 - Registration of midwives, funeral directors
• 26:8-7 - Registration of vital records by state department
• 26:8-8 - Vital record facilities
• 26:8-9 - State registrar
• 26:8-12 - Approval of appointment by state department
• 26:8-13 - Term of office
• 26:8-14 - Appointment of successors
• 26:8-15 - Vacancy
• 26:8-16 - Persons eligible as local registrars
• 26:8-17 - Local registrar; appointment of deputy, alternate deputy registrar
• 26:8-18 - Subregistrar;  appointment
• 26:8-19 - Removal from office 
• 26:8-20 - Nonapplicability 
• 26:8-21 - Applicability of chapter 
• 26:8-21.1 - Rules, regulations
• 26:8-22 - Oath of office 
• 26:8-23 - Duty of the department; examination of records
• 26:8-24 - Duties, responsibilities of State registrar
• 26:8-24.1 - New Jersey Electronic Death Registration System (NJ-EDRS); implementation
• 26:8-24.2 - "New Jersey Electronic Death Registration Support Fund."
• 26:8-24.3 - Means of accessing NJ-EDRS; requirements
• 26:8-25 - Duties, responsibilities of local registrar
• 26:8-25.1 - Suspension of authority to participate in NJ-EDRS
• 26:8-26 - Duty of subregistrar
• 26:8-28 - Birth certificate required; information furnished
• 26:8-28.1 - Contents of certificate of parentage
• 26:8-29 - Contents of birth certificate
• 26:8-30 - Execution, return of certificate of birth; availability of certificate of parentage; challenge to acknowledgment of paternity
• 26:8-31 - Certificate of birth or parentage when no physician or midwife in attendance 
• 26:8-32 - Completion of details by local registrar
• 26:8-33 - Report by father or mother
• 26:8-34 - Supplemental return of name of child
• 26:8-35 - Incomplete certificate of birth
• 26:8-36 - Interrogation of informant
• 26:8-37 - Stillborn child to be registered as fetal death; birth certificate options
• 26:8-38 - Recording unrecorded births; penalty for false certificate 
• 26:8-39 - Birth certificate not to disclose illegitimacy;  exceptions
• 26:8-40 - Change of surname of child born out of wedlock;  amendment of original birth record
• 26:8-40.1 - Adopted children, birth certificates; procedure
• 26:8-40.2 - Parentage unknown;  presumption of birth within state
• 26:8-40.4 - Application; determination of probable date of birth; presumption 
• 26:8-40.5 - Persons not entitled to order
• 26:8-40.6 - Record of birth;  effect as evidence
• 26:8-40.7 - "Employer"  defined
• 26:8-40.8 - Honorable discharge from armed services;  acceptance by employer  in lieu of birth certificate
• 26:8-40.9 - Violation as disorderly conduct
• 26:8-40.10 - Foreign births and adoptions
• 26:8-40.11 - Change of surname of child born out of wedlock;  amendment of original birth record
• 26:8-40.12 - Sex reassignment surgery;  amendment of birth certificate
• 26:8-40.20 - Legislative findings and declarations
• 26:8-40.21 - Birth defects, severe neonatal jaundice registry
• 26:8-40.22 - Confidential reports of abortions of fetus with or infant affected by birth defect or severe neonatal jaundice
• 26:8-40.23 - Confidentiality of reports
• 26:8-40.24 - Nonliability for divulging confidential information
• 26:8-40.25 - Act not to be construed to compel submission to medical examination or to supervision by department of health
• 26:8-40.26 - Rules and regulations
• 26:8-41 - Transmission of marriage and civil union licenses and certificates
• 26:8-42 - License issued in another registration district, transmission of information on form provided
• 26:8-43 - Transmission of marriage and civil union certificates and licenses to State registrar
• 26:8-44 - Indexing, tabulation and preservation of records by State registrar
• 26:8-45 - Cancellation of records of marriages and civil unions declared void
• 26:8-46 - Indorsement of record upon cancellation
• 26:8-47 - Preparation of forms for marriage and civil union licenses, certificates
• 26:8-48 - Amendments to certificate, recording, authentication
• 26:8-49 - Corrections to birth and fetal death certificates
• 26:8-50 - Correcting marriage or civil union licenses
• 26:8-51 - Corrections to marriage, civil union, domestic partnership certificates
• 26:8-52 - Correcting death certificates, procedure
• 26:8-53 - Acceptance of corrections
• 26:8-54 - Certified copies of corrected certificates
• 26:8-56 - Fee for registering birth or death
• 26:8-57 - Fee for reporting no registration of birth or death
• 26:8-59 - Payment of local registrar for certificates or reports
• 26:8-59.1 - Persons authorized to obtain certification, certified copy of death certificate; accounting for fees
• 26:8-60 - Fee for transmitting certificate
• 26:8-61 - Fee for cancellation of marriage or civil union record
• 26:8-62 - Certification, certified copy of records, search fee; uniform forms for vital records
• 26:8-63 - Free certified copies
• 26:8-64 - Search of files, records, fee
• 26:8-65 - Account of fees received
• 26:8-66 - Investigation of violation
• 26:8-67 - Duty of county prosecutor
• 26:8-68 - Duty of attorney general; proceedings by local registrar
• 26:8-69 - Penalties; recovery

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