CHAPTER 346

An Act to amend and reenact § 32-885 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
certain duties of local registrars of vital statistics. 5 363
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Approved April 2, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 32-335 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
follows:

§ 32-335. (a) It shall be the duty of the local registrar to supply blank
forms of certificates to such persons as require them. Each local registrar
shall carefuly examine each certificate of birth, death or stillbirth when
presented for record, to see that it has been made out in accordance with
the provisions of law, and the instructions of the State Registrar, and if
any certificate of death or stillbirth is incomplete or unsatisfactory, it shall
be his duty to call attention to the defects in the return, and to withhold
issuing the burial or removal permit until they are corrected or satisfac-
torily explained. If the certificate of death or stillbirth is executed as
herein provided, he shall then issue a burial or removal permit; provided,
that in case the death or stillbirth 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 incom-
plete, he shall immediately 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, death,
or stillbirth, in three separate series, beginning with number one for the
first birth, the first death, and the first stillbirth 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,
each death, and each stillbirth certificate registered by him in a record book
supplied by the State Registrar to be preserved permanently in his office,
and transferred 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 transmit on the tenth and twenty-fifth
day of each month * to the State Registrar all original certificates of births,
deaths and stillbirths * filed in the period immediately preceding the pre-
scribed dates. If no births, deaths or stillbirths * are filed 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.
An Act to amend and reenact § 24-449 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to immunity from prosecution of persons giving evidence as to offenses
under the election laws of the State. 'H 22)

Approved April 2, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

ae That § 24-449 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 24-449, No witness required to give and giving evidence * before
Qa grand jury or ina criminal proceeding in a court of record in compli-
ance with a subpoena issued by direction of such grand jury or attorney
for the Commonwealth, respectively, under the preceding sections of this
chapter shall ever be ‘proceeded against for any offense made penal by
any of such provisions, or any of the other election laws of this State,
committed by him at or in connection with the same election, primary,
or convention.