Chapter 26:8

Section 26:8-1 - Definitions
Section 26:8-2 - Registration district
Section 26:8-3 - Consolidation of districts
Section 26:8-4 - Duty to furnish information relative to birth, death, marriage, civil union, domestic partnership
Section 26:8-5 - Institutional records
Section 26:8-6 - Registration of midwives, funeral directors
Section 26:8-7 - Registration of vital records by state department
Section 26:8-8 - Vital record facilities
Section 26:8-9 - State registrar
Section 26:8-11 - Local registrar, appointment; county clerk, authorized to act as local registrar, certain circumstances
Section 26:8-12 - Approval of appointment by state department
Section 26:8-13 - Term of office
Section 26:8-14 - Appointment of successors
Section 26:8-15 - Vacancy
Section 26:8-16 - Persons eligible as local registrars
Section 26:8-17 - Local registrar; appointment of deputy, alternate deputy registrar
Section 26:8-18 - Subregistrar; appointment
Section 26:8-19 - Removal from office
Section 26:8-20 - Nonapplicability
Section 26:8-21 - Applicability of chapter
Section 26:8-21.1 - Rules, regulations
Section 26:8-22 - Oath of office
Section 26:8-23 - Duty of the department; examination of records
Section 26:8-24 - Duties, responsibilities of State registrar
Section 26:8-24.1 - New Jersey Electronic Death Registration System (NJ-EDRS)
Section 26:8-24.2 - "New Jersey Electronic Death Registration Support Fund."
Section 26:8-24.3 - Means of accessing NJ-EDRS; requirements
Section 26:8-25 - Duties, responsibilities of local registrar
Section 26:8-25.1 - Suspension of authority to participate in NJ-EDRS
Section 26:8-26 - Duty of subregistrar
Section 26:8-27 - Inquiries to applicants for marriage or civil union license
Section 26:8-28 - Birth certificate required; information furnished
Section 26:8-28.1 - Contents of certificate of parentage
Section 26:8-29 - Contents of birth certificate
Section 26:8-30 - Execution, return of certificate of birth; availability of certificate of parentage; challenge to acknowledgment of paternity
Section 26:8-31 - Certificate of birth or parentage when no physician or midwife in attendance
Section 26:8-32 - Completion of details by local registrar
Section 26:8-33 - Report by father or mother
Section 26:8-34 - Supplemental return of name of child
Section 26:8-35 - Incomplete certificate of birth
Section 26:8-36 - Interrogation of informant
Section 26:8-37 - Stillborn child to be registered as fetal death; birth certificate options
Section 26:8-38 - Recording unrecorded births; penalty for false certificate
Section 26:8-39 - Birth certificate not to disclose illegitimacy; exceptions
Section 26:8-40 - Change of surname of child born out of wedlock; amendment of original birth record
Section 26:8-40.1 - Adopted children, birth certificates; procedure
Section 26:8-40.2 - Parentage unknown; presumption of birth within state
Section 26:8-40.4 - Application; determination of probable date of birth; presumption
Section 26:8-40.5 - Persons not entitled to order
Section 26:8-40.6 - Record of birth; effect as evidence
Section 26:8-40.7 - "Employer" defined
Section 26:8-40.8 - Honorable discharge from armed services; acceptance by employer in lieu of birth certificate
Section 26:8-40.9 - Violation as disorderly conduct
Section 26:8-40.10 - Foreign births and adoptions
Section 26:8-40.11 - Change of surname of child born out of wedlock; amendment of original birth record
Section 26:8-40.12 - Gender reassignment surgery; amendment of birth certificate
Section 26:8-40.20 - Legislative findings and declarations
Section 26:8-40.21 - Birth defects, severe neonatal jaundice registry
Section 26:8-40.22 - Confidential reports of abortions of fetus with or infant affected by birth defect or severe neonatal jaundice
Section 26:8-40.23 - Confidentiality of reports
Section 26:8-40.24 - Nonliability for divulging confidential information
Section 26:8-40.25 - Act not to be construed to compel submission to medical examination or to supervision by department of health
Section 26:8-40.26 - Rules and regulations
Section 26:8-40.27 - Findings, declarations relative to stillbirths
Section 26:8-40.28 - Development of comprehensive policies, procedures
Section 26:8-40.29 - Fetal death evaluation protocol
Section 26:8-40.30 - Establishment, maintenance of data base
Section 26:8-40.31 - Evaluation of data, report to Governor, Legislature
Section 26:8-40.32 - Rules, regulations
Section 26:8-40.33 - Provision of uncertified long-form copy of adopted person's original certificate of birth
Section 26:8-40.34 - Submission of document of contact preference by birth parent
Section 26:8-40.35 - Certain cases exempt
Section 26:8-40.36 - Rules, regulations
Section 26:8-40.37 - Additional regulations
Section 26:8-41 - Transmission of marriage and civil union licenses and certificates, power of attorney
Section 26:8-42 - License issued in another registration district, transmission of information on form provided
Section 26:8-43 - Transmission of marriage and civil union certificates and licenses to State registrar
Section 26:8-44 - Indexing, tabulation and preservation of records by State registrar
Section 26:8-45 - Cancellation of records of marriages and civil unions declared void
Section 26:8-46 - Indorsement of record upon cancellation
Section 26:8-47 - Preparation of forms for marriage and civil union licenses, certificates
Section 26:8-48 - Amendments to certificate, recording, authentication
Section 26:8-49 - Corrections to birth and fetal death certificates
Section 26:8-50 - Correcting marriage or civil union licenses
Section 26:8-51 - Corrections to marriage, civil union, domestic partnership certificates
Section 26:8-52 - Correcting death certificates, procedure
Section 26:8-53 - Acceptance of corrections
Section 26:8-54 - Certified copies of corrected certificates
Section 26:8-55 - Submitting false certificate; penalty
Section 26:8-56 - Fee for registering birth or death
Section 26:8-57 - Fee for reporting no registration of birth or death
Section 26:8-59 - Payment of local registrar for certificates or reports
Section 26:8-59.1 - Persons authorized to obtain certification, certified copy of death certificate; accounting for fees
Section 26:8-60 - Fee for transmitting certificate
Section 26:8-61 - Fee for cancellation of marriage or civil union record
Section 26:8-62 - Certification, certified copy of records, search fee; uniform forms for vital records
Section 26:8-63 - Free certified copies
Section 26:8-64 - Search of files, records, fee
Section 26:8-65 - Account of fees received
Section 26:8-66 - Investigation of violation
Section 26:8-67 - Duty of county prosecutor
Section 26:8-68 - Duty of attorney general; proceedings by local registrar
Section 26:8-69 - Penalties; recovery