The state registrar shall:
1. Administer and enforce this chapter and the rules issued hereunder, and issue instructions for the efficient administration of the state-wide system of vital statistics and the division for records and statistics.
2. Direct and supervise the state-wide system of vital statistics and the division for records and statistics and be custodian of its records.
3. Direct, supervise, and control the activities of clerks of the district court related to the operation of the vital statistics system and provide registrars with necessary postage.
4. Prescribe, print, and distribute the forms required by this chapter.
5. Prepare and publish annual reports of vital statistics of this state and other reports as may be required.
6. Delegate functions and duties vested in the state registrar to officers, employees of the department, and to the county registrars as the state registrar deems necessary or expedient.
7. Provide, by rules, for appropriate morbidity reporting.
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 2393; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, § 144.8; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 144.5; 81 Acts, ch 64, § 1]
88 Acts, ch 1158, §33
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