New Jersey Statutes 26:8-16. Persons eligible as local registrars
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 26:8-16
- district: means a registration district as constituted by this article. See New Jersey Statutes 26:8-1
- 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
No physician, midwife or funeral director shall be appointed as local registrar, but in any registration district where full time health officers or other full time health officials will, in the judgment of the State department, properly conduct registration of vital records such officials or one or more of them may be appointed as local registrars in and for such registration district and they shall be subject to the rules and regulations of the State registrar and to all the provisions of this chapter and chapter 6 of this Title (s. 26:6-1 et seq.) as well as chapter 1 of Title 37 of the Revised Statutes. The prohibition against appointment of a physician as registrar shall not apply where the physician is also a full time health officer.
Amended by L.1941, c. 252, p. 674, s. 1; L.1965, c. 78, s. 41.