1999 Minnesota Statutes

     144.212 Definitions. 

    Subdivision 1.    Scope.  As used in sections 144.211 
 to 144.227, the following terms have the meanings given: 

    Subd. 1a.    Amendment.  "Amendment" means completion or 
 correction of a vital record. 

    Subd. 2.    Commissioner.  "Commissioner" means the 
 commissioner of health. 

    Subd. 2a.    Delayed registration.  "Delayed 
 registration" means registration of a certificate of birth or 
 death filed one or more years after the date established by law 
 for filing a certificate of birth or death. 

    Subd. 3.    File.  "File" means to present a vital 
 record for registration. 

    Subd. 4.    Final disposition.  "Final disposition" 
 means the burial, interment, cremation, removal from the state, 
 or other authorized disposition of a dead body or dead fetus. 

    Subd. 4a.    Institution.  "Institution" means a public 
 or private establishment that: 

    (1) provides inpatient or outpatient medical, surgical, or 
 diagnostic care or treatment; or 

    (2) provides nursing, custodial, or domiciliary care, or to 
 which persons are committed by law. 

    Subd. 5.    Registration.  "Registration" means the 
 acceptance of a vital record for filing by a registrar of vital 
 statistics. 

    Subd. 6.    State registrar.  "State registrar" means 
 the commissioner of health or a designee. 

    Subd. 7.    System of vital statistics.  "System of 
 vital statistics" includes the registration, collection, 
 preservation, amendment and certification of vital records, the 
 collection of other reports required by sections 144.211 to 
 144.227, and related activities including the tabulation, 
 analysis and publication of vital statistics. 

    Subd. 8.    Vital record.  "Vital record" means 
 certificates or reports of birth, death, marriage, dissolution 
 and annulment, and data related thereto. 

    Subd. 9.    Vital statistics.  "Vital statistics" means 
 the data derived from certificates and reports of birth, death, 
 fetal death, induced abortion, marriage, dissolution and 
 annulment, and related reports. 

    Subd. 10.    Local registrar.  "Local registrar" means 
 an individual designated under section 144.214, subdivision 1, 
 to perform the duties of a local registrar. 

    Subd. 11.    Consent to disclosure.  "Consent to 
 disclosure" means an affidavit filed with the state registrar 
 which sets forth the following information: 

    (a) The current name and address of the affiant; 

    (b) Any previous name by which the affiant was known; 

    (c) The original and adopted names, if known, of the 
 adopted child whose original birth certificate is to be 
 disclosed; 

    (d) The place and date of birth of the adopted child; 

    (e) The biological relationship of the affiant to the 
 adopted child; and 

    (f) The affiant's consent to disclosure of the original 
 unaltered birth certificate of the adopted child. 

    HIST: 1978 c 699 s 2; 1986 c 444; 1997 c 228 s 3-5