California Health and Safety Code

§ 103040.1

HSC § 103040.1 Effective Jan 1, 2008Div. 102 · Part 1 · Ch. 7 · Art. 4.5

Statute text

(a)The local registrar of births and deaths of the county in which a fetal death, in which the fetus has advanced beyond the 20th week of uterogestation, is registered, shall issue, upon the request of the mother or father of the fetus, a Certificate of Still Birth, on a form approved by the State Registrar of Vital Statistics for each naturally occurring intrauterine fetal death after a gestational age of not less than 20 completed weeks.

(b)A Certificate of Still Birth issued pursuant to subdivision (a) shall, except as otherwise set forth in this section, comply with all of the format requirements governing a certificate for a live birth contained in Article 2 (commencing with Section 102425). The Certificate of Still Birth shall be in addition to and shall not replace the fetal death certificate issued pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 102950).

(c)The request for a Certificate of Still Birth shall be on a form prescribed by the State Registrar of Vital Statistics.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2007, Ch. 661, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2008.