PRINTER'S NO. 2469
No. 2022 Session of 1993
INTRODUCED BY DALEY, VEON, ROONEY, PHILLIPS, M. N. WRIGHT,
LaGROTTA, GANNON, TRELLO, FEE AND GORDNER, SEPTEMBER 29, 1993
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND WELFARE, SEPTEMBER 29, 1993
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 compensation of local
14 registrars.
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
19 December 20, 1991 (P.L.399, No.46), 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)] five dollars ($5) for each certificate
23 transmitted in accordance with the provisions of this act or for
24 each report of no certificates filed during any calendar month.
1 The fees prescribed by this section shall be paid by the
2 Commonwealth from funds appropriated to the department.
3 (b) Local registrars shall issue certificates of death from
4 original certificates of death in their possession upon
5 completion of a period of instruction on the preparation of
6 certificates by representatives of the Division of Vital
7 Records. For each certificate issued, the local registrar shall
8 receive a fee of two dollars ($2).
9 (c) A local registrar may not receive an aggregate amount of
10 fees in excess of thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000) in any
11 one calendar year.
12 (d) Any regulation inconsistent with or contrary to the
13 provisions of this section is superseded.
14 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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