The county registrar or state registrar shall charge the parent a ten dollar fee for the registration of a certificate of birth and a separate fee established under section 144.46 for a certified copy of the certificate. The certified copy shall be mailed to the parent by the state registrar. If the person responsible for the filing of the certificate of birth under section 144.13 is not the parent, the person is entitled to collect the fee from the parent. The fee shall be remitted to the appropriate registrar. If the expenses of the birth are reimbursed under the medical assistance program established by chapter 249A, or paid for under the statewide indigent patient care program established by chapter 255, or paid for under the obstetrical and newborn indigent patient care program established by chapter 255A, or if the parent is indigent and unable to pay the expenses of the birth and no other means of payment is available to the parent, the registration fee and certified copy fee are waived. If the person responsible for the filing of the certificate is not the parent, the person is discharged from the duty to collect and remit the fee under this section if the person has made a good faith effort to collect the fee from the parent. The fees collected by the county registrar and state registrar shall be remitted to the treasurer of state for deposit in the general fund of the state. It is the intent of the general assembly that the funds generated from the registration fees be appropriated and used for primary and secondary child abuse prevention programs. It is the intent of the general assembly that the funds generated from the fees as established under section 144.46 for the mailing of the certified copy of the birth certificate be appropriated and used to support the distribution of the automatic birth certificate and the implementation of the electronic birth certificate system.
85 Acts, ch 173, § 1; 87 Acts, ch 233, § 428; 88 Acts, ch 1158, § 37; 91 Acts, ch 243, § 1; 92 Acts, ch 1097, § 3
Referred to in § 135G.18
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