CHAPTER 69
COLLECTION OF STATISTICS
SUBCHAPTER I
VITAL STATISTICS
69.02 Department powers and duties.
69.03 Powers and duties of state registrar.
69.035 Treatment by state registrar of tribal vital records and tribal court orders.
69.04 Local registration district.
69.05 Duties of local registrar.
69.06 Duties of city registrars.
69.07 Duties of register of deeds.
69.08 Requirements for registration.
69.09 Corrections prior to filing.
69.10 Correction of obvious errors.
69.11 Amendments without court order.
69.12 Entry of true facts by court order.
69.13 Correction of facts misrepresented by informant for certificate of birth.
69.14 Registration of births.
69.145 Certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth.
69.15 Changes of fact on birth certificates.
69.16 Marriage documents.
69.186 Induced abortion reporting.
69.19 Court-ordered certificates of death.
69.20 Disclosure of information from vital records.
69.21 Copies of vital records.
69.23 Costs for collecting delinquent certificates.
69.30 Authorized copying of vital records.
SUBCHAPTER II
GENERAL STATISTICS
69.61 Annual statement of taxes.
69.62 Returns to department of revenue.
69.63 Department of revenue, duties.
69.64 Realty statistics; items.
69.65 Statistics compiled, use of; county clerk's duties.
69.66 Agricultural statistics.
69.67 Returns may be sent for; expense.
69.68 Statement of indebtedness to secretary of state.
VITAL STATISTICS
69.01
69.01
Definitions. In this subchapter:
69.01(2)
(2) "Certifier of the cause of death" means a physician, coroner or medical examiner acting under
s. 69.18 (2).
69.01(3)
(3) "City registrar" means the local health officer of a local health department with jurisdiction for a city that is a registration district.
69.01(5)
(5) "Court report" means an abstract of a court action involving a vital record completed and certified by the clerk of court on a form supplied by the state registrar.
69.01(6g)
(6g) "Date of death" means the date that a person is pronounced dead by a physician, coroner, deputy coroner, medical examiner, deputy medical examiner, or hospice nurse.
69.01(7)
(7) "Department" means the department of health services.
69.01(8)
(8) "Direction of the state registrar" means the determination in individual cases that statutes are being observed, the issuance of administrative rules, the imposition of statutory penalties and the maintenance of communications within the system of vital statistics.
69.01(10)
(10) "File" means the acceptance by the local registrar and the initial incorporation of vital records provided under this subchapter into the system of vital statistics.
69.01(11)
(11) "Filing party" means any person who submits a vital record to a local registrar for filing in the system of vital statistics.
69.01(12)
(12) "Final disposition" means the disposition of a corpse or stillbirth by burial, interment, entombment, cremation, delivery to a university or school under
s. 157.02 (3) or delivery to a medical or dental school anatomy department under
s. 157.06. "Final disposition" does not include disposition of the ashes produced by cremation of a corpse or stillbirth.
69.01(12m)
(12m) "Hospice nurse" means a registered nurse, as defined in
s. 146.40 (1) (f), who is employed by or under contract to a hospice.
69.01(13m)
(13m) "Induced abortion" means the termination of a uterine pregnancy by a physician of a woman known by the physician to be pregnant, for a purpose other than to produce a live birth or to remove a dead fetus.
69.01(15)(a)
(a) The register of deeds responsible for filing vital records in the county except as provided under
par. (b).
69.01(15)(b)
(b) The city registrar responsible for filing certificates of births or certificates of births and deaths in his or her city.
69.01(16m)
(16m) "Medical certification" means those portions of a death certificate that provide the cause of death, the manner of death, injury-related data, and any other medically-related data that is collected as prescribed by the state registrar under
s. 69.18 (1m) (c) 2.
69.01(17)
(17) "Person with a direct and tangible interest" means a person who satisfies the requirements under
s. 69.20 (1).
69.01(18)
(18) "Place of death" means the place where a pronouncement of a human death occurs or, if a death occurs in a conveyance or a corpse is found in interstate waters and removed in this state, the place where the corpse is removed.
69.01(19)
(19) "Registrant" means the subject of a certificate which a local registrar has accepted for filing in the system of vital statistics.
69.01(20)
(20) "Registration" means final processing of vital records after filing and review for completeness and correctness by the local and state registrar.
69.01(21)
(21) "Registration district" means a county, except that a city approved under
s. 69.04 is a registration district for filing certificates of births or certificates of births and deaths occurring in the city.
69.01(22)
(22) "Research" means a systematic study through scientific inquiry for the purpose of expanding a field of knowledge, including environmental or epidemiological research or special studies, that is conducted by persons who meet criteria for access that are specified in rules promulgated under
s. 69.20 (4).
69.01(24)
(24) "State registrar" means the state registrar of vital statistics appointed by the department under
s. 69.02 (1) (b).
69.01(25)
(25) "System of vital statistics" means:
69.01(25)(a)
(a) The filing, registration, collection, preservation, amendment and certification of vital records under this subchapter.
69.01(25)(b)
(b) The collection of records, other than vital records, required under this subchapter.
69.01(25)(c)
(c) Activities related to the activities under
pars. (a) and
(b), including the tabulation, analysis and publication of vital statistics.
69.01(26)
(26) "Vital records" means any of the following:
69.01(26)(a)
(a) Certificates of birth, death, and divorce or annulment, and marriage documents.
69.01(26)(b)
(b) Worksheets that use forms that are approved by the state registrar and are related to documents under
par. (a).
69.01(27)
(27) "Vital statistics" means the data derived from certificates of birth, death, divorce or annulment, marriage documents, fetal death reports or related reports.
