641—95.2 (144) Vital records and statistics. There is established a division in the department which shall install, maintain, and operate the system of vital statistics throughout the state. No system for the registration of births, deaths, fetal deaths, adoptions, marriages, dissolutions, and annulments shall be maintained in the state or any of its political subdivisions other than the one provided for in Iowa Code chapter 144, including, but not limited to, a system maintained by any agency or private entity.
	 95.2(1) No person shall prepare or issue any certificate which purports to be an original certified copy or a copy of a certificate of birth, death, fetal death, adoption, marriage, dissolution, or annulment or any subset of the data items taken from a certificate except as provided for in Iowa Code chapter 144 and authorized by the state registrar.
	 95.2(2) A vital record, index, or subset of data shall not be maintained in any other system or manner except as provided for in Iowa Code chapter 144 and authorized by the state registrar.
	 95.2(3) The state registrar and the county registrar shall not maintain or issue copies of any vital record of an event occurring outside the state registrar’s or county registrar’s jurisdiction except as provided for in Iowa Code chapter 144 and authorized by the state registrar.
	 95.2(4) To protect the integrity of vital records and to ensure their proper use, no vital record, index, or subset of data shall be posted to the World Wide Web or published in any other manner except as provided for in Iowa Code chapter 144 and pursuant to subrule 95.10(3) or as authorized by the state registrar.
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