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- RS 40:31.35 · Commercial seafood permit fee
- RS 40:31.35.1 · Repealed by Acts 2025, No. 300, §4, eff. June 11, 2025.
- RS 40:31.36 · Health unit fees
- RS 40:31.37 · Retail food establishment fees
- RS 40:31.38 · Office of public health reinspection fees
- RS 40:31.39 · Dairy farms and plants; milk plants; permit fees; definitions
- RS 40:31.40 · Plan review fees
- RS 40:31.41 · Legislative intent
- RS 40:31.42 · Definitions
- RS 40:31.43 · Louisiana Birth Defects Surveillance System
- RS 40:31.44 · Confidentiality
- RS 40:31.45 · Report
- RS 40:31.46 · Advisory board
- RS 40:31.47 · Cooperation by other state entities
- RS 40:31.48 · Rules and regulations
- RS 40:31.61 · Legislative intent
- RS 40:31.62 · Definitions
- RS 40:31.63 · Parkinson's Disease Registry
- RS 40:31.64 · Director
- RS 40:31.65 · Authority and responsibility of the director
- RS 40:31.66 · Confidentiality; cooperation with other state and federal entities
- RS 40:31.67 · Funding
- RS 40:31.68 · Rules and regulations
- RS 40:31.71 · Legislative findings
- RS 40:31.72 · ALS disease surveillance system
- RS 40:31.73 · Confidentiality
- RS 40:31.74 · Report
- RS 40:32 · Definition of terms
- RS 40:33 · Vital records registry; establishment; general authority and duties of state registrar
- RS 40:34 · Vital records forms
- RS 40:34.1 · Original birth certificate; required contents
- RS 40:34.2 · Original birth certificate; required contents; name of child
- RS 40:34.3 · Original birth certificate; required contents; sex of child
- RS 40:34.4 · Original birth certificate; required contents; circumstances of birth
- RS 40:34.5 · Original birth certificate; required contents; name of father
- RS 40:34.5.1 · Three-party acknowledgment of paternity; effect
- RS 40:34.5.2 · Form and notice for three-party acknowledgment of paternity
- RS 40:34.6 · Original birth certificate; required contents; name of mother
- RS 40:34.7 · Original birth certificate; required contents; other information regarding the parents
- RS 40:34.8 · Original birth certificate; required contents; certification of attendant
- RS 40:34.9 · Original birth certificate; required contents; attestation of local filing
- RS 40:34.10 · Death certificate; required contents
- RS 40:34.11 · Paternity acknowledgement affidavit; required contents
- RS 40:34.12 · Provision of information to aid implementation of program of family support
- RS 40:34.13 · Registration of acknowledgements and adjudications of paternity
- RS 40:35 · Failure to complete medical certification
- RS 40:36 · State registrar as custodian
- RS 40:37 · Local registrars; duties
- RS 40:38 · Certified copies; issuance
- RS 40:39 · Issuance of short-form birth certification cards
- RS 40:39.1 · Certified copies of birth certificates and death certificates; clerks of district courts and the Second City Court of the city of New Orleans; Vital Records Conversion Dedicated Fund Account
- RS 40:40 · Fees for certified copies
- RS 40:41 · Disclosure of records
- RS 40:42 · Evidentiary character of certificates
- RS 40:43 · Repealed by Acts 1987, No. 886, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 1988.
- RS 40:44 · Compulsory registration of births; rejection of certificates
- RS 40:45 · Preparation of birth certificates; by whom made
- RS 40:46 · Amendments to certificate of birth
- RS 40:46.1 · Amended birth certificates; change of biological filiation; general principle
- RS 40:46.2 · Change of maternal filiation; child with unidentified mother
- RS 40:46.3 · Change of maternal filiation; child with identified mother
- RS 40:46.4 · Change of paternal filiation; disavowal of paternity or three-party acknowledgment
- RS 40:46.5 · Change of paternal filiation; contestation and establishment of paternity
- RS 40:46.6 · Change of paternal filiation; marriage and formal acknowledgment
- RS 40:46.7 · Change of paternal filiation; formal acknowledgment alone
- RS 40:46.8 · Change of paternal filiation; judgment of paternity
- RS 40:46.9 · Repealed by Acts 2018, No. 21, §3, eff. May 7, 2018.
- RS 40:46.10 · Child born as a result of a surrogacy agreement
- RS 40:46.11 · Review by district attorney
- RS 40:46.12 · Hospital-based paternity program
- RS 40:46.13 · Paternity establishment services
- RS 40:47 · Compulsory registration of deaths and spontaneous fetal deaths (stillbirths)
- RS 40:48 · Abortions (induced termination of pregnancy); birth and death certificates
- RS 40:49 · Preparation and filing of death and spontaneous fetal death certificate (stillbirth)
- RS 40:50 · Issuance of death certificates; duties of state registrar
- RS 40:51 · Delayed determination of cause of death
- RS 40:52 · Permit for removal, burial, cremation, or other disposition of body for a death in state; requirements to obtain death certificate before removing body out of the continental United States
- RS 40:53 · Foreign permits; death outside state
- RS 40:54 · Prerequisites for permit
- RS 40:55 · Marriage certificate; compulsory registration of marriages
- RS 40:56 · Repealed by Acts 1987, No. 886, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 1988.
- RS 40:57 · Divorce certificate; registration of divorces and annulments
- RS 40:58 · Fee of clerk of court for divorce and annulment report
- RS 40:59 · Delayed or altered certificates; allowed subject to department regulations
- RS 40:60 · Handling of delayed or altered certificate
- RS 40:61 · Penalties
- RS 40:61.1 · Criminal background investigation
- RS 40:62 · Issuance of new birth certificate after anatomical change of sex by surgery
- RS 40:62.1 · Issuance of new birth certificate for child with mistaken sex designation on original birth record
- RS 40:63 · Abortion, induced termination of pregnancy; purpose
- RS 40:64 · Forms for collection of data
- RS 40:65 · Completion of forms; filing with vital records registry
- RS 40:66 · Failure to complete form; penalty
- RS 40:67 · Persons over twelve years of age; establishment of birth record
- RS 40:68 · Petition
- RS 40:69 · Proof required
- RS 40:70 · Copy of petition and judgment to registrar
- RS 40:71 · Issuance of copy
- RS 40:72 · Record of adoptions prior to July 27, 1938
- RS 40:73 · Certified copy of the new record; sealing and confidentiality of the original birth record; issuance of original birth certificate