New Jersey § 26:8-16 Persons eligible as local registrars

New Jersey Statutes

§ 26:8-16 — Persons eligible as local registrars

New Jersey § 26:8-16

Title 26HEALTH AND VITAL STATISTICS

This text of New Jersey § 26:8-16 (Persons eligible as local registrars) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering New Jersey primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook

N.J. Stat. Ann. § 26:8-16 (2026).

Text

No physician, midwife or funeral director shall be appointed as local registrar, but in any registration district where full time health officers or other full time health officials will, in the judgment of the State department, properly conduct registration of vital records such officials or one or more of them may be appointed as local registrars in and for such registration district and they shall be subject to the rules and regulations of the State registrar and to all the provisions of this chapter and chapter 6 of this Title (s. 26:6-1 et seq.) as well as chapter 1 of Title 37 of the Revised Statutes. The prohibition against appointment of a physician as registrar shall not apply where the physician is also a full time health officer. Amended by L.1941, c. 252, p. 674, s. 1; L.1965, 

Free access — add to your briefcase to read the full text and ask questions with AI

No physician, midwife or funeral director shall be appointed as local registrar, but in any registration district where full time health officers or other full time health officials will, in the judgment of the State department, properly conduct registration of vital records such officials or one or more of them may be appointed as local registrars in and for such registration district and they shall be subject to the rules and regulations of the State registrar and to all the provisions of this chapter and chapter 6 of this Title (s. 26:6-1 et seq.) as well as chapter 1 of Title 37 of the Revised Statutes. The prohibition against appointment of a physician as registrar shall not apply where the physician is also a full time health officer. Amended by L.1941, c. 252, p. 674, s. 1; L.1965, c. 78, s. 41.