Alaska Administrative Code
Title 7 - Health and Social Services
Part 1 - Administration
Chapter 05 - Vital Records
Article 3 - Special Procedures
7 AAC 05.990 - Preservation of evidence

Such evidence, abstracts thereof, or references thereto required to be submitted to and kept by the bureau in cases of delayed certificates, amendments to certificates, adoptions, legitimations, or any other matter shall be filed permanently and preserved as long as the record to which it may pertain is preserved. It may be filed separately or with the corresponding certificate, as determined by the State Registrar; provided that copies of such evidence need not be included with a certified copy of such certificate unless specifically requested, and then only if not prohibited by existing law or regulation. After a period of 10 years, the files of such evidence, as well as the files of original certificates and materials related thereto required following the establishment of a new certificate of birth after adoption or legitimation, may be preserved by microfilming, with a proper index thereto, and the original files destroyed if deemed desirable in the discretion of the State Registrar.

The original certificates of vital events shall be microfilmed as soon as feasible following registration, in one or more copies, for preservation and safety, as well as for general use within the bureau in searching and certification, if such procedure be found desirable; provided that such original vital records shall not thereafter be destroyed.

Authority:AS 18.50.040