9.31—Definitions.
As used in this subpart:
Live birth means the birth of a child who shows evidence of life after the child is entirely outside the mother.
Stillbirth means a birth after 20 weeks of gestation which is not a live birth.
Physician means a person legally authorized to practice medicine before October 1, 1979, in the area then known as the Canal Zone.
Vital statistics includes the registration, preparation, transcription and preservation of data pertaining to marriages, births, adoptions, legitimations, deaths, stillbirths, and data incidental thereto.
Vital Statistics Unit means the organizational unit charged by the Administrator of the Panama Canal Commission with the function of vital statistics.