PRINTER'S NO. 3135
No. 2353 Session of 1988
INTRODUCED BY LaGROTTA, HAGARTY, BELFANTI, WOGAN, GAMBLE, MELIO,
VAN HORNE, HALUSKA, FOX, COWELL, SAURMAN AND LASHINGER,
APRIL 13, 1988
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND WELFARE, APRIL 13, 1988
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 29, 1953 (P.L.304, No.66), entitled "An
2 act providing for the administration of a statewide system of
3 vital statistics; prescribing the functions of the State
4 Department of Health, the State Advisory Health Board and
5 local registrars; imposing duties upon coroners,
6 prothonotaries, clerks of orphans' court, physicians,
7 midwives and other persons; requiring reports and
8 certificates for the registration of vital statistics;
9 regulating the disposition of dead bodies; limiting the
10 disclosure of records; prescribing the sufficiency of vital
11 statistics records as evidence; prescribing fees and
12 penalties; and revising and consolidating the laws relating
13 thereto," further providing for local registrars'
14 compensation.
15 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
16 hereby enacts as follows:
17 Section 1. Section 304 of the act of June 29, 1953 (P.L.304,
18 No.66), known as the Vital Statistics Law of 1953, amended June
19 24, 1970 (P.L.440, No.149), is amended to read:
20 Section 304. Registration Districts: Local Registrars'
21 Compensation.--(a) Each local registrar shall be paid a fee of
22 [one dollar ($1)] three dollars ($3) for each certificate
23 transmitted in accordance with the provisions of this act or for
1 each report of no certificates filed during any calendar month.
2 The Advisory Health Board, by regulation, may establish and from
3 time to time revise, maximum limits upon the aggregate amount of
4 fees to be paid any local registrars during a given period. The
5 fees prescribed by this section shall be paid by the
6 Commonwealth from funds appropriated to the department.
7 (b) Local registrars shall issue certificates of death from
8 original certificates of death in their possession upon
9 completion of a period of instruction on the preparation of
10 certificates by representatives of the Division of Vital
11 Records. For each certificate issued, the local registrar shall
12 receive a fee of two dollars ($2).
13 (c) A local registrar may not receive an aggregate amount of
14 fees in excess of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) in any one
15 calendar year.
16 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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