92-041 ORD PROVIDING CODE OF ORDINANCES BE AMENDED BY REVISING SECTION 17-5 OF SAID CODE CITY CLERK IS REGISTRAR OF VITAL STATISTICS FOR COP
ORDINANCE N0. 92-041
AN ORDINANCE OF' THE CITY OF PARIS, PARIS, TEXAS,
PROVIDING THAT THE CODE OF ORllINANCES, CITY OF PARIS, BE
AMENDED BY REVISING SECTION 17-5 OF SAID CODE; PKOVIDING THAT
THE CITY CLERK IS THE REGISTRAR OF VITAL STATISTICS FOR THE
CITY; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES UR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN
CONFLICT HEREWITH; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE OF
SEPTEMBER 14, 1992.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS:
Section 1. That Section 17-5 of the Code of
Ordinances of the City of Paris, Paris, Texas, be amended so
that such shall read as follows:
"Sec. 17-5 Registrar ot vital statistics.
(a) The City Clerk shall be the local
registrar of vital statistics for the City. Each
local registrar shall appoint a deputy registrar so
that a registrar will be available at all times for
the registration of births and deaths.
(b) The local registrar of vital statistics
shall perform the duties of that office as provided
for by city ordinance, state law and by such rules
and regulations as may be promulgated by the state
board of health as provided by law.
(c) The clerk ur such other competent
employee as the city clerk may designate, shall
perform the clerical work required of the local
registrar of vital statistics. The clerk or other
employee performing such duties shall be a notary
public for the purpose of acknowledgment of
signatures, certification of documents and the
administration of oaths necessary in the
performance of official duties.
(d) The local registrar of vital statistics
shall be supplied with permanent record books, in a
form approved by the state registrar, tor recording
all births, deaths, and stillbirths occurring
within the City. She shall make a camplete and
accurate copy of each birth, death and stillbirth
certificate registered by her or the deputy
registrar, in a record book referred to above,
which shall be preserved permanently in her office
as the official recorcf of the city, in such manner
as directed by the state registrar.
(e) No fee shall be paid to the local
registrar of vital statistics for registering and
recording certificates of birth, death and
stillbirth.
(f) The local registrar of vital statistics
is authorized and directed to furnish upon request
to any qualified applicant a certified copy of a
death certificate recorded as provided in thi.s
section for which a fee of nine dollars ($9.00)
will be charged for the first or only copy
requested and three dollars ($3.00) for each
additional copy of the same record requested in the
same request. The fee for a certified copy of a
birth record shall be nine dollars ($9.00).
Additional copies sha.ll be nine dollars ($9.00) for
each copy requested. Such a certified copy shall
be issued in only such form as approved by the
state department of health, and receipts shall be
made by the local registrar and issued to the
applicant upon receipt forms furnished and provided
by the City. All such tees collected shall be paid
by the local registrar to the City monthly.
(g) The local registrar of vital statistics
shall, upon request of any parent or guardian,
supply, for a fee of one dollar ($1.00) a birth
registration card limited to a statement as to the
date of birth of any child when the same shall be
used for admissian to school or for the purpose of
securing employment.
(h) The local registrar of vital statistics
shall issue free of cost, to any veteran of the
armed services of the United States, his widow,
orphan or other dependent, a certified copy of any
record not otherwise prohibited by law, when such
recard is to be used in the settlement of a claim
againsc the government."
Section 2. Al1 ordi.nances or parts of ordinances in
conflict herewith are hereby expressly repealed.
Section 3. This ordinance shall become effective on
September 14, 1992.
Passed and adopted this 14th day of September, 1992.
;4z 10~
orge ishe , Mayor
ATTEST:
Mattie Cunningham, City er
APPROVED AS 0 FORM:
. K. Haynes, ity Attorney