Section 28 Vital Statistics Outdated Language 1

Chapter 46 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out section 1 and inserting in place thereof the following section:-

          Section 1. Each town clerk shall receive or obtain and record the following facts, as well as such additional information that may be required under federal statutes or contracts, regulations promulgated pursuant to section 4 of chapter 17, or, as the commissioner of public health may require, relative to births, marriage, acknowledgments and adjudications of parentage and deaths which occurred in the town and for certificates of marriage issued by the town.

          In the record of births, date of birth, place of birth, name, residence and sex of child; and names, birth surnames, places of birth and dates of birth of both parents. In the record of birth of a child born to parents not married to each other, the name of and other facts relating to the second parent shall not be recorded except as provided in section 2 of chapter 209C where parentage has been acknowledged or adjudicated under the laws of the commonwealth or under the law of any other jurisdiction.

          In the record of marriages, date of record, date and place of marriage, name, residence and official station of the person by whom solemnized; for each of the parties to be married the name, date and place of birth, residence, age, number of the marriage, as first or second, and if previously married, whether widowed or divorced and the birth-given names of their parents.

          In the record of death, date of death, names of deceased, including birth surname, social security number, gender, race, marital status, education, name of spouse if ever married, supposed age, residence, occupation, place of death, place of birth, names, birth surnames and places of birth of the parents, disease or cause of death, defined so that it can be classified under the international classification of causes of death, place and type of immediate disposition. The word "residence", as used in this section, shall include the name of the street and number, if any, of the house.

This section, together with a related section, makes technical updates to outdated language in the vital statistics statute.