Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 26:8-29

  • birth: means the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, which, after such separation, breathes or shows any other evidence of life such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles, whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or the placenta attached. See New Jersey Statutes 26:8-1
  • State registrar: means the State registrar of vital statistics. See New Jersey Statutes 26:8-1
The certificate of birth shall contain such items as shall be listed on birth certificate forms provided or approved by the State registrar under authority of section 26:8-24(c) of the Revised Statutes.

Amended by L.1951, c. 84, p. 476, s. 2; L.1965, c. 78, s. 51.