Tex. Health & Safety Code § 191.027 · Subchapter B. RECORDS OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND FETAL DEATHS
REVIEW OF CERTIFICATE BY LOCAL REGISTRAR.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The local registrar shall carefully examine each birth or death certificate when presented for registration to determine if it is completed as required by this title and by the state registrar's instructions.
(b) If a death certificate is incomplete or unsatisfactory, the local registrar shall call attention to the defects in the return.
(c) If a birth certificate is incomplete, the local registrar shall immediately notify the informant and require the informant to supply the missing information if it can be obtained.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.191.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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