SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1708

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES DAUS, GAMBARO, JOHNSON (61), BOYKINS, CARNAHAN,

O'TOOLE, HILGEMANN, VILLA, SHELTON (Co-sponsors) AND TROUPE.

Read 1st time January 30, 2002, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

4089L.01I

AN ACT

To repeal section 193.065, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the appointment of local registrars.



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Section 193.065, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 193.065, to read as follows:

193.065. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the state registrar may appoint local registrars, each of whom shall be a person employed by an official county health agency. In any city not within a county, the state registrar shall appoint the recorder of deeds for such city as the local registrar. Each local registrar shall be authorized under the provisions of section 193.255 and subsection 2 of section 193.265 to issue certifications of death records. A local registrar, with the approval of the state registrar, may appoint deputies. The local registrars shall immediately report to the state registrar violations of sections 193.005 to 193.325 or the regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.


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