H-1596 _______________________________________________
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 1264
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C 099 L 90
State of Washington 51st Legislature 1989 Regular Session
By House Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Nealey, Haugen, Ferguson, McLean, Horn, Cooper and Moyer)
Read first time 2/10/89.
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)) each
original death or fetal death certificate no less than thirty days after the
certificate was registered nor more than sixty days after the certificate was
registered. On or before the fifteenth day and the last day of each month,
each local registrar shall transmit to the state registrar all original birth
certificates that were registered prior to that day and which had not been
transmitted previously. A local registrar shall transmit an original
certificate to the state registrar whenever the state registrar requests the
transfer of the certificate from the local 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 first class city or a city of twenty-seven
thousand or more population is located may retain an exact copy of the original
and make certified copies of the exact copy.