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DIVISION 102. VITAL RECORDS AND HEALTH STATISTICS 102100-103925›PART 1. VITAL RECORDS 102100-103800›CHAPTER 1. General Provisions 102100-102155

§ 102135

California Health and Safety Code · 2020-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

(a) All physicians, informants, funeral directors, clergy, or judges and all other persons having knowledge of the facts, shall supply upon the prescribed forms any information that they possess regarding any birth, fetal death, death, or marriage upon demand of the state or local registrar.

(b) All physicians, informants, funeral directors, clergy, judges, public employees, or other persons who supply upon prescribed forms information that they possess regarding any birth, fetal death, death, or marriage shall in no case use a derogatory, demeaning, or colloquial racial or ethnic descriptor.

(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 1996.)

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