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DIVISION 102. VITAL RECORDS AND HEALTH STATISTICS 102100-103925›PART 1. VITAL RECORDS 102100-103800›CHAPTER 11. Amendment of Records 103225-103449›ARTICLE 5. Amendment of Birth Certificate to Delete Racial Slurs 103350-103375

§ 103355

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

Any person who was born in this state and whose birth is registered in this state may apply to the State Registrar for the establishment and issuance of a new birth certificate and the sealing of the original if the person certifies that the entry or entries in the original birth certificate regarding race or color contain a term or terms that in the opinion of the registrant, constitute racial slurs or are otherwise offensive. The application shall identify the offensive terms to be deleted and indicate the proper entries for race or color to be substituted. The determination as to whether the entries to be deleted are offensive shall be left to the judgment of the applicant and the State Registrar shall give deference to that determination.

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

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