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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 4996

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1986 Regular Session

By Senators Stratton, Kreidler, Craswell, Johnson and McCaslin

Read first time 1/24/86 and referred to Committee on Human Services & Corrections.

AN ACT Relating to birth certificates; and amending RCW 70.58.080.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

        Sec. 1.  Section 12, chapter 83, Laws of 1907 as last amended by section 8, chapter 5, Laws of 1961 ex. sess. and RCW 70.58.080 are each amended to read as follows:

          The attending physician or midwife shall file a certificate of birth, properly and completely filled out, giving all of the particulars required, with the local registrar of the district in which the birth occurred, within ten days after the birth.  If there is no attending physician or midwife, the father or mother of the child, householder or owner of the premises, manager or superintendent of the public or private institution in which the birth occurred, shall notify the local registrar, within ten days after the birth, of the fact of the birth, and the local registrar shall secure the necessary information and signature to make a proper certificate of birth.

          When an infant is found for whom no certificate of birth is known to be on file, a birth certificate shall be filed within the time and in the form prescribed by the state board of health.

          ((When no putative father is named on a birth certificate of a child born to an unwed mother)) Every birth certificate shall contain the names of both the mother and father of the child if the information is known.  In the case of a child born to an unwed mother, the mother shall provide the name of the putative father, if known.  If the putative father is not known, the mother may give any surname she so desires to her child but shall designate in space provided for father's name on the birth certificate "None Named".