To protect the integrity of vital statistics records, to ensure their proper use, and to ensure the efficient and proper administration of the vital statistics system kept by the state registrar, access to vital statistics records kept by the state registrar shall be limited to the state registrar and the state registrar's employees, and then only for administrative purposes. It shall be unlawful for the state registrar to permit inspection of, or to disclose information contained in vital statistics records, or to copy or permit to be copied all or part of any such record except as authorized by regulation.
However, the following vital statistics records may be inspected and copied as of right under chapter 22 when they are in the custody of a county registrar or when they are in the custody of the state archivist and are at least seventy-five years old:
1. A record of birth.
2. A record of marriage.
3. A record of divorce, dissolution of marriage, or annulment of marriage.
4. A record of death if that death was not a fetal death.
[C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, § 144.45; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, S81, § 144.43; 81 Acts, ch 64, § 10; 82 Acts, ch 1100, § 2]
88 Acts, ch 1158, §43; 90 Acts, ch 1025, § 1; 94 Acts, ch 1171, §5
Referred to in § 144.18
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