New Jersey Statutes 26:8-11. Local registrar, appointment; county clerk, authorized to act as local registrar, certain circumstances
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 26:8-11
- district: means a registration district as constituted by this article. See New Jersey Statutes 26:8-1
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- population: when used in any statute, shall be taken to mean the population as shown by the latest Federal census effective within this State, and shall be construed as synonymous with "inhabitants. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- registrar: means the local registrar of vital statistics of any district. See New Jersey Statutes 26:8-1
- State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- State registrar: means the State registrar of vital statistics. See New Jersey Statutes 26:8-1
- Vital records: means the birth, death, fetal death, marriage, civil union and domestic partnership records from which vital statistics are produced. See New Jersey Statutes 26:8-1
(2) Whenever a county governing body adopts a resolution permitting the county clerk to act as the local registrar for any registration district within the county, the resolution shall not take effect until 30 days after the governing body has:
(a) published the resolution, together with a notice of the date of passage or approval, or both, at least once in a newspaper published in the county, or, if there is no newspaper published in the county, then in a newspaper of general circulation within the county,
(b) prepared operations plans clearly delineating the responsibilities of the local registrar and the county clerk and filed those operations plans with the State Registrar, and
(c) prepared a plan to ensure the security of the vital records, related indices, safety papers and other materials of the county including the planned method of secure storage and transfer of the vital records from a municipality to the county, and filed the security plan with the State Registrar.
b. The local board having jurisdiction over an eligible registration district, within a county that permits the county clerk to act as local registrar, may designate the county clerk as its local registrar by adopting a resolution for that purpose and filing the resolution with the county clerk.
c. The local board having jurisdiction over each registration district shall appoint a local registrar for that district, which shall be the county clerk in the case of a registration district that has designated the county clerk pursuant to this section. In those districts which by governmental organization structure have no separate board of health, the appointment shall be made by the governing body.
In any district having a population of less than 5,000 persons in which the county clerk does not act as the local registrar the municipal clerk shall be appointed as local registrar at a salary to be determined by the appointing authority.
Amended 1965, c.78, s.37; 2005, c.261, s.1.