(1) In consultation with the State Archivist, the State Registrar of the Center for Health Statistics shall develop and implement a preservation management program to preserve vital record documents and information and meet generally accepted standards for permanent preservation.

Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 432.295

  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Fetal death: means death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of human conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, that is not an induced termination of pregnancy. See Oregon Statutes 432.005
  • Live birth: means the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of human conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, that, after such expulsion or extraction, 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 is attached. See Oregon Statutes 432.005
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Record: means a report that has been registered by the state registrar. See Oregon Statutes 432.005
  • Report: means a document, whether in paper or electronic format, containing information related to a vital event submitted by a person required to submit the information to the state registrar for the purpose of registering a vital event. See Oregon Statutes 432.005
  • State: includes a state or territory of the United States, the District of Columbia and New York City. See Oregon Statutes 432.005
  • Vital record: means a report of a live birth, death, fetal death, marriage, declaration of domestic partnership, dissolution of marriage or domestic partnership and related data that have been accepted for registration and incorporated into the official records of the Center for Health Statistics. See Oregon Statutes 432.005

(2) The state registrar shall prepare typewritten, photographic, electronic or other reproductions of vital records or reports kept and maintained in the Center for Health Statistics. These reproductions, when verified and approved by the state registrar, shall be accepted as the original vital record documents. The original vital record documents from which permanent reproductions have been made may be disposed of as described in ORS § 192.105 or as provided by rule of the state registrar.

(3) The state registrar shall provide for the continued availability and integrity of vital event information. To ensure such availability and integrity, the state registrar may keep and maintain redundant copies of information in multiple locations and formats, such as microfilm, microfiche, imaging and electronic databases.

(4) The preservation management program must provide for the continued availability of historic vital record documents and information for research and related purposes. Vital records are historic when 100 years have elapsed after the date of live birth for births occurring after 1914, 50 years have elapsed after the date of death for deaths occurring after 1964, 50 years have elapsed after the date of fetal death for fetal deaths occurring after 1964 or 50 years have elapsed after the date of marriage, domestic partnership, dissolution of marriage or dissolution of domestic partnership for such events occurring after 1964. Supporting documents, including corrections and acknowledgments of paternity, may be included with historic vital records. Records under seal are not historic unless unsealed by court order.

(5) Historic vital records shall be transferred to the State Archives in accordance with archival procedures for the continued safekeeping of the vital records. The State Archives may not charge the Center for Health Statistics for the transfer and maintenance of historic vital records under this subsection. The state registrar shall adopt rules to ensure that the release of information contained in records of birth, death, marriage, domestic partnership and dissolution of marriage or domestic partnership, and reports of fetal death, comply with federal and state laws, regulations and rules. [Formerly 432.115]

 

Sections 1 and 2, chapter 246, Oregon Laws 2023, provide:

(1) The Oregon Health Authority shall designate a work group comprised of representatives of county vital records offices, funeral directors, other partners and community members to propose options for equitable access to birth and death certificates throughout the state and equitable fee revenue to maintain and improve the state and county vital records system.

(2) The authority shall report to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to vital records on the options proposed by the work group no later than January 1, 2025. [2023 c.246 § 1]

Section 1 of this 2023 Act is repealed on January 2, 2025. [2023 c.246 § 2]

 

[1987 c.517 § 2 (enacted in lieu of 146.001); 1997 c.783 § 28; repealed by 2013 c.366 § 88]

 

[Repealed by 1963 c.200 § 6]

 

[1963 c.200 § 2; 1965 c.221 § 26; 1977 c.582 § 33; 1983 c.709 § 12; 1985 c.207 § 5; 1997 c.783 § 29; 1999 c.80 § 71; 1999 c.724 § 1; 2001 c.357 § 2; 2003 c.104 § 3; 2011 c.407 § 1; 2013 c.366 § 16; renumbered 432.133 in 2013]

 

[Amended by 1959 c.629 § 32; repealed by 1963 c.200 § 6]

 

[1993 c.345 § 3; 1997 c.783 § 30; 2005 c.726 § 3; 2009 c.132 § 1; 2009 c.595 § 616; 2009 c.709 § 16; 2013 c.366 § 42; renumbered 413.825 in 2013]

 

[Amended by 1959 c.629 § 33; repealed by 1963 c.200 § 6]

 

[1963 c.200 § 3; 1983 c.709 § 16; 1985 c.207 § 6; 1987 c.252 § 9; 1989 c.669 § 2; 1997 c.783 § 31; 1999 c.724 § 4; 2001 c.357 § 3; 2003 c.104 § 4; 2009 c.595 § 617; 2013 c.366 § 20; renumbered 432.158 in 2013]

 

[Repealed by 1963 c.200 § 6]

 

[Repealed by 1963 c.200 § 6]

 

[1963 c.200 § 4; 1983 c.709 § 36; 1997 c.783 § 32; 2013 c.366 § 21; renumbered 432.163 in 2013]

 

[Repealed by 1963 c.200 § 6]

 

[1983 c.709 § 13; 1989 c.171 § 54; 1997 c.783 § 33; 2013 c.366 § 19; renumbered 432.143 in 2013]

 

[Repealed by 1963 c.200 § 6]

 

[1983 c.709 § 15; 1997 c.783 § 34; renumbered 432.153 in 2013]

 

[Repealed by 1963 c.200 § 6]

 

[Repealed by 1983 c.709 § 45]

 

EXEMPTION FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE

 

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