(22) Registrant: The individual named on the certificate of birth, death, or fetal death; application for marriage license; or report of divorce or annulment of marriage. (23) Registrar: The State Registrar or a Local Registrar as recognized by the Texas Department of State Health Services, Vital Statistics Unit. (24) Research copy: A plain paper noncertified reproduction of the complete original document or a portion of the original document. (25) Search: The act of examining the files and/or indexes maintained by the Vital Statistics Unit for a specific record or information. (26) Signature: The name of a person written with his or her own hand; or by an electronic process approved by the State Registrar. (27) State Registrar: The Unit Director of the Vital Statistics Unit, Texas Department of State Health Services. (30) Death Verification: A noncertified statement only of the registrant’s name, date of death, and place of death as it appears on the death index filed with the Vital Statistics Unit. (31) Fetal Death Verification: A noncertified statement only of the registrant’s name, date of delivery, and place of delivery as it appears on the fetal death index filed with the Vital Statistics Unit. (32) Marriage Verification: A noncertified statement only of the registrant’s name, date of marriage, and place of marriage as it appears on the application for marriage license index filed with the Vital Statistics Unit. (33) Report of Divorce or Annulment of Marriage Verification: A noncertified statement only of the registrant’s name, date of divorce, and place of divorce as it appears on the report of divorce or annulment of marriage index as it appears on the birth index filed with the Vital Statistics Unit. (34) Vital statistics: The registration, preparation, transcription, collection, compilation, distribution and preservation of data pertaining to births, adoptions, paternity determinations, deaths, fetal deaths, suits affecting parent child relationship, court of continuing jurisdiction, marital status, and such other data as deemed necessary by the department. (35) Vital Statistics Act: The Health and Safety Code, Title 3. (36) Vital Statistics Unit: The office, formally known as the Bureau of Vital Statistics, within the Texas Department of State Health Services, formerly known as the Texas Department of Health, charged with the implementation of the Texas Vital Statistics Act. RULE §181.2: Assuming Custody of Body (a) The funeral director, or person acting as such, who assumes custody of a dead body or fetus shall obtain an electronically filed report of death through a Vital Statistics Section system or complete a report of death before transporting the body. The report of death shall within 24 hours be mailed or otherwise transmitted to the Local Registrar of the district in which the death occurred or in which the body was found. A copy of the completed or electronically filed report of death as prescribed by the Vital Statistics Section shall serve as authority to transport or bury the body or fetus within this state. (b) If a dead body or fetus is to be removed from this state, transported by common carrier within this state, or cremated, the funeral director, or person acting as such, shall obtain a burial-transit permit from the Local Registrar where the death certificate is or will be filed, or from the State Registrar electronically through a Vital Statistics Section electronic death registration system. The registrar shall not issue a burial-transit permit until a certificate of death, completed in so far as possible, has been presented (See §181.6 of this title (relating to Disinterment)).
(12) Identification of applicant: Each applicant must present a current form of government issued photo identification along with his or her application. If the applicant is unable to present a current form of photo identification, two valid supporting forms of identification may be presented, one of which bears the applicant’s signature. (13) Immediate family member: The registrant, his or her guardian, or the children, spouses, parents, siblings, or grandparents of the registrant. (14) Indexes: An index to or listing of birth records, death records, applications for marriage licenses, and reports of divorce or annulment of marriage. (A) Consolidated indexes: These indexes are vital records consisting of more than one event year. Consolidated indexes may be prepared for any vital event at the discretion of the State Registrar in the form prescribed. (B) General birth and death indexes: These indexes are maintained or established by the Vital Statistics Unit or a local registration official which shall be prepared by event year, in alphabetical order by surname of the registrant, followed by any given names or initials, the date of the event, the county of occurrence, the state or local file number, the name of the father, the maiden name of the mother, and sex of the registrant. (C) Summary birth and death index: These indexes are maintained or established by the Vital Statistics Unit or a local registration official which shall be prepared by event year, in alphabetical order by surname of the registrant, followed by any given names or initials, the date of the event, the county of occurrence, and sex of the registrant. (15) Interment: Burial or the act of placing in a grave. (16) Legal representative (personal representative or agent): An attorney in fact, a funeral director, or any other person designated by affidavit, contract, or court order acting on behalf and for the benefit of the registrant or his or her immediate family. In order to determine the need for protection for personal property rights when the legal representative is acting on behalf and for the benefit of the registrant or the registrant’s immediate family or other entity having a direct and tangible interest in the record, the State Registrar, Local Registrar, or county clerk shall require a designation document or an attested statement to that effect. (18) Local registration official: A county clerk or person authorized by the Vital Statistics Act to maintain a duplicate system of records for each birth, death, or fetal death that occurs in the person’s jurisdiction. (20) Person in charge of interment: Any person who places or causes to be placed a fetus, dead body or the ashes, after cremation, in a grave, vault, urn, or other receptacle, or otherwise disposes thereof. (21) Properly qualified applicant (qualified applicant): The registrant, or immediate family member either by blood, marriage or adoption, his or her guardian, or his or her legal agent or representative. Local, state and federal law enforcement or governmental agencies and other persons may be designated as properly qualified applicants by demonstrating a direct and tangible interest in the record when the information in the record is necessary to implement a statutory provision or to protect a personal legal property right. A properly qualified applicant may also be a person who has submitted an application for a request to release personal information and has been approved as outlined in §181.11 of this title (relating to Requests for Personal Data).
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