An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
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Volume | 1944 |
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Law Number | 52 |
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Chap. 52.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1575, 1578 and 1580 of the
Code of Virginia, 1919, relating to vital statistics (by incorporating, with cer-
tain changes, the provisions of Sections 15, 18 and 20 of Chapter 181, Acts
1912, approved March 12, 1912, as amended by Chapter 58, Acts 1918, approved
February 16, 1918, into Sections 1575, 1578, and 1580, respectively, of the Code
of 1919) ; to add a new section to the Code numbered 1575-a, relating to the
same subject (by incorporating therein, with certain changes, the provisions of
Chapter 338, Acts 1942, approved March 31, 1942); to repeal Sections 15, 18
and 20 of Chapter 181, Acts 1912, approved March 12, 1912 and all amendments
of these sections, particularly Chapter 58, Acts 1918, approved February 16,
1918, relating to the same subject; and to repeal Chapter 338, Acts 1942, ap-
proved March 31, 1942, relating to the same subject. {H 55]
Approved February 22, 1944
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia :
1. That sections fifteen hundred seventy-five, fifteen hundred seventy-
eight and fifteen hundred eighty of the Code of Virginia be amended and
re-enacted, and that the Code be further amended by adding a new sec-
tion, numbered fifteen hundred seventy-five-a, as follows:
Section 1575. (a) When any certificate of birth of a living child is
presented without the statement of the given name, then the local regis-
trar shall make out and deliver to the parents of the child a special blank
for the supplemental report of the given name of the child, which shall
be filled out as directed, and returned to the local registrar as soon as
the child has been named.
(b) Every physician, midwife, undertaker and dealer in coffins shall,
without delay, register his or her name, address and occupation with the
local registrar of the district in which he or she resides, or may hereafter
establish a residence ; each midwife shall upon registration be given with-
out cost a permit to practice her profession from the State Registrar of
Vital Statistics, countersigned by the local registrar. This permit may
be revoked by the State Registrar upon evidence that the midwife has
failed to comply with the law in the report of births, or to obey the sani-
tary rules of the State Board of Health governing midwives. Any per-
son who practices the profession of midwife for pay without a permit
shall be subject to a fine of from one to ten dollars for such offense.
(c) Within thirty days after the close of each calendar year, or
earlier, each local registrar shall make a return to the State registrar of
all physicians, midwives or undertakers who have been registered in his
district during the whole or any part of the preceding calendar year:
provided, that no fee or other compensation shall be charged by local
registrars to physicians, midwives, or undertakers for registering their
names under this section or making returns thereof to the State registrar.
Section 1575-a. (a) Any person born in this State prior to June
fourteen, nineteen hundred twelve, as to the date and place of whose
birth there is no record in the office of Registrar of Vital Statistics and
who cannot produce evidence to the satisfaction of the Registrar of Vital
Statistics as to the date and place of his birth and such other information
as the Registrar requires to record the birth, may have the date and
place of his birth established by any court of record of the county or city
in which he resides, upon satisfactory proof thereof before the court or
judge, upon which being done, the court or judge shall, by an order en-
tered of record in the common law order book of the court, set forth the
date and place of the person’s birth as so proven, together with the sex.
height, weight, color of hair and eyes, and any distinguishing physical
mark or characteristic of the person.
(b) Upon the entering of the order, the clerk of the court shall
promptly transmit a certified copy to the Registrar of Vital Statistics,
who shall record it in his office, from which record so made, the Registrar
shall issue a birth certificate to the person the date and place of whose
birth is established by the order, setting forth in the certificate the source
of the information upon which the certificate 1s 1ssued.
Section 1578. (a) It shall be the duty of the local registrars to sup-
ply blank forms of certificates to such persons as require them. Each
local registrar shall carefully examine each certificate of birth or death
when presented for record, to see that it has been made out in accordance
with the provisions of the law, and the instructions of the State Registrar,
and if any certificate of death is incomplete or unsatistactory, it shall be
his duty to call attention to the defects in the return, and to withhold issu-
ing the burial or removal permit until they are corrected or satisfactorily
explained. If the certificate of death 1s executed as herein provided, he
shall then issue a burial or removal permit; provided, that in case the
death occurred from some disease that is held by the State Board of
Health to be infectious, contagious, or communicable and dangerous to
the public health, no permit for the removal or other disposition of the
body shall be granted by the registrar, except under such conditions as are
prescribed by law. If a certificate of birth is incomplete, he shall im-
mediately notify the informant, and require him to supply the missing
items if they can be obtained.
(b) He shall number consecutively the certificates of birth and death,
in two separate series, beginning with number one for the first birth and
the first death in each calendar year, and sign his name as registrar in
attest of the date of filing in his office.
(c) He shall also make a complete and accurate copy of each birth
and each death certificate registered by him in a record book supplied
by the State Registrar to be preserved permanently in his office, and trans-
ferred to his successor, as the local record in such manner as directed by
the State Registrar, except that in copying certificates of the birth of
illegitimate children, all items are to be copied into his books from the
original certificates transmitted to the State Bureau of Vital Statistics,
except the names of the children, and parents, those spaces to be left blank
in his copies.
(d) The local registrar shall on the tenth day of each month trans-
mit to the State Registrar all original certificates of births and deaths
which have occurred to the end of the preceding month. If no births or
deaths occur in any month, he shall on the tenth day of the following
month report that fact to the State Registrar on a card provided for this
purpose.
Section 1580. (a) The State Registrar shall, upon request, furnish
any applicant a certified copy of the record of any birth or death regis-
tered under provisions of law, for the making and certification of which
he shall be entitled to a fee of fifty cents to be paid by the applicant, and
any such copy of the record of a birth or death, when properly certified by
the State Registrar to be a true copy thereof, shall be prima facie evidence
in all courts and places of the facts therein stated in accordance with
authority of law. The State Registrar however may decline to issue a
certified copy of the certificate of the birth or the death of an illegitimate
child or to give any information concerning same, except by order ot
court or upon the written request of the mother of the child, or other
person responsible for it. For any search of the files and records when
no certified copy is made, the State Registrar shall be entitled to a fee of
fifty cents for each hour or fractional part of an hour of time of search,
to be paid by the applicant and he shall keep a true and correct account
of all fees by him received uncer these provisions and turn them over
to the State Treasurer.
(b) The State Registrar shall, upon request of any parent or guar-
dian, supply without fee, a statement as to the date of the birth of any
child, when same is necessary for admission to school or for the purpose
of securing employment, and the notification certificates which have been
furnished to parents or others, of the registration of the birth of legitimate
children shall if unchanged be taken as proof of registration of the births.
(c) Whenever the State Registrar is requested to furnish a certified
copy of a birth, death or marriage certificate of a person and the records
in his office or other public records concerning such person or his or her
parents or forebears are such as to cause the Registrar to doubt the cor-
rectness of the racial designation or designations contained in the certi-
ficate, copy of which is requested, it shall be the duty of the State Regis-
trar to enter upon the backs of the original certificate and certified copy
an abstract of such other certificates or records, showing their contents
so far as they are material in determining the true race of the person or
persons named in the original certificate and the certified copy, with spe-
cific reference to the records, indicating where same are to be found open
to public inspection.
2. That sections fifteen, eighteen and twenty of chapter one hundred
eighty-one, Acts nineteen hundred twelve, approved March twelve, nine-
teen hundred twelve, and all.amendments of these sections, particularly
chapter fifty-eight, Acts nineteen hundred eighteen, approved February
sixteen, nineteen hundred eighteen, relating to certain vital statistics ; and
chapter three hundred thirty-eight, Acts nineteen hundred forty-two, ap-
proved March thirty-one, nineteen hundred forty-two, relating to the
same subject, and all amendments thereto, are repealed.