144.5 - DUTIES OF REGISTRAR.
144.5 DUTIES OF REGISTRAR.
The state registrar shall:
1. Administer and enforce this chapter and the rules issued
hereunder, and issue instructions for the efficient administration of
the statewide system of vital statistics and the division for records
and statistics.
2. Direct and supervise the statewide system of vital statistics
and the division for records and statistics and be custodian of its
records.
3. Direct, supervise, and control the activities of clerks of the
district court and county recorders related to the operation of the
vital statistics system and provide registrars with necessary
postage.
4. Prescribe, print, and distribute the forms required by this
chapter and prescribe any other means for transmission of data, as
necessary to accomplish complete, accurate reporting.
5. Prepare and publish annual reports of vital statistics of this
state and other reports as may be required.
6. Delegate functions and duties vested in the state registrar to
officers, to employees of the department, to the clerks of the
district court, and to the county registrars as the state registrar
deems necessary or expedient.
7. Provide, by rules, for appropriate morbidity reporting. Section History: Early Form
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 2393; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, §
144.8; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 144.5; 81 Acts, ch 64, § 1] Section History: Recent Form
88 Acts, ch 1158, §33; 95 Acts, ch 124, § 1, 2, 26; 97 Acts, ch
159, §8