Massachusetts § 1 Certificates of birth, marriage, death and acknowledgments and adjudications of paternity;  contents;  residence defined

Massachusetts Statutes

§ 1 — Certificates of birth, marriage, death and acknowledgments and adjudications of paternity; contents; residence defined

Massachusetts § 1

Part IADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT

Title VIICITIES, TOWNS AND DISTRICTS

Ch. 46RETURN AND REGISTRY OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS

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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 46, § 1 (2026).

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Section 1. Each town clerk shall receive or obtain and record the following facts, as well as such additional information that may be required under federal statutes or contracts, regulations promulgated pursuant to section 4 of chapter 17, or, as the commissioner of public health may require, relative to births, marriage, acknowledgments and adjudications of paternity and deaths which occurred in the town and for certificates of marriage issued by the town.[ Second paragraph effective until January 1, 2025.  For text effective January 1, 2025, see below.]In the record of births, date of birth, place of birth, name and sex of child;  names, places of birth, and dates of birth of both parents;  and residence and birth surname of the child's mother.  In the record of birth of a child born to

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Section 1. Each town clerk shall receive or obtain and record the following facts, as well as such additional information that may be required under federal statutes or contracts, regulations promulgated pursuant to section 4 of chapter 17, or, as the commissioner of public health may require, relative to births, marriage, acknowledgments and adjudications of paternity and deaths which occurred in the town and for certificates of marriage issued by the town.[ Second paragraph effective until January 1, 2025. For text effective January 1, 2025, see below.]In the record of births, date of birth, place of birth, name and sex of child; names, places of birth, and dates of birth of both parents; and residence and birth surname of the child's mother. In the record of birth of a child born to parents not married to each other, the name of and other facts relating to the father shall not be recorded except as provided in section 2 of chapter 209C where paternity has been acknowledged or adjudicated under the laws of the commonwealth or under the law of any other jurisdiction.[ Second paragraph as amended by 2024, 166, Sec. 1 effective January 1, 2025. See 2024, 166, Sec. 67. For text effective until January 1, 2025, see above.]In the record of births, name, date of birth, place of birth and sex of child; legal names, dates of birth, residences, places of birth and surname at birth or adoption of the parent or parents. In the record of birth of a child born to parents not married to each other, the name of and other facts relating to the other parent or parents shall not be recorded except as provided in section 2 of chapter 209C where parentage has been acknowledged or adjudicated under the laws of the commonwealth or under the law of any other jurisdiction.In the record of marriages, date of record, date and place of marriage, name, residence and official station of the person by whom solemnized; for each of the parties to be married the name, date and place of birth, residence, age, number of the marriage, as first or second, and if previously married, whether widowed or divorced, and the birth-given names of their parents.In the record of death, date of death, names of deceased, including birth surname for women, social security number, sex, race, marital status, education, name of spouse if ever married, supposed age, residence, occupation, place of death, place of birth, names and places of birth of the parents, birth surname of the mother, disease or cause of death, defined so that it can be classified under the international classification of causes of death, place and type of immediate disposition. The word "residence'', as used in this section, shall include the name of the street and number, if any, of the house.