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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 1264

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Representatives Nealey, Haugen, Ferguson, McLean, Horn, Cooper and Moyer

Read first time 1/20/89 and referred to Committee on Local Government.

AN ACT Relating to vital statistics registration; and amending RCW 70.58.030.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 18, chapter 83, Laws of 1907 as amended by section 6, chapter 5, Laws of 1961 ex. sess. and RCW 70.58.030 are each amended to read as follows:

          The local registrar shall supply blank forms of certificates to such persons as require them.  He or she shall carefully examine each certificate of birth, death, and fetal death when presented for record, and see that it has been made out in accordance with the provisions of law and the instructions of the state registrar.  If any certificate of death is incomplete or unsatisfactory, ((he)) the local registrar shall call attention to the defects in the return, and withhold issuing the burial-transit permit until it is corrected.  If the certificate of death is properly executed and complete, he or she shall issue a burial-transit permit to the funeral director or person acting as such.  If a certificate of a birth is incomplete, he or she shall immediately notify the informant, and require ((him to supply)) that the missing items be supplied if they can be obtained.  He or she shall sign ((his name)) as local registrar to each certificate filed in attest of the date of filing in ((his)) the office.  He or she shall make a record of each birth, death, and fetal death certificate registered ((by him)) in such manner as directed by the state registrar.  ((He)) The local registrar shall ((on or before the tenth day of each month,)) transmit to the state registrar all original certificates ((registered by him during the preceding month)) no less than twenty-five days after the event nor more than forty days after the event.  When the state registrar requests the transfer of a certificate from a local registrar, the local registrar shall transfer the record immediately to the state registrar.  If no births or no deaths occurred in any month, he or she shall, on the tenth day of the following month, report that fact to the state registrar, on a card provided for this purpose((:  PROVIDED, That in cities of the first class the city health officer may require the filing of two original certificates and may retain one of the duplicate original certificates as the city record)).  Local registrars in counties in which a city of ten thousand or more population is located may retain an exact copy of the original and make certified copies of the exact copy.