Idaho Administrative Code
Title IDAPA 16 - Health and Welfare, Department of
Rule 16.05.01 - USE AND DISCLOSURE OF DEPARTMENT RECORDS
Section 16.05.01.011 - DEFINITIONS FOR VITAL STATISTICS

Universal Citation: ID Admin Code 16.05.01.011

Current through September 2, 2024

The definitions provided in Subsection 011 of these rules apply to Vital Statistics and to the disclosure provisions of Section 39-270, Idaho Code.

01. Authorized Representative. An attorney, physician, funeral director, a legally designated agent, or an entity whose purpose for obtaining a vital record is to pay direct benefits to a person with a direct and tangible interest defined in Subsection 011.03 of this rule.

02. Certificate. A certificate of birth, death, stillbirth, miscarriage, marriage, or divorce, filed pursuant to law, excluding information contained in the statistical section of any record.

03. Individuals with a Direct and Tangible Interest. Individuals who have a direct and tangible interest in a vital record are:

a. The registrant and that person's spouse, children, parents, grandparents, grandchildren, siblings, or guardian;

b. Any other person who demonstrates that the record is needed for the determination or protection of that person's property right;

c. An authorized representative of any of these individuals;

d. The surviving next-of-kin if a deceased registrant has no other surviving family member listed in this subsection;

e. The Idaho Attorney General, and state and federal prosecuting attorneys, if such attorney submits an affidavit affirming that the record is necessary in the furtherance of the attorney's official law enforcement duties, is not reasonably available from another source, and that reasonable steps will be taken to preserve the confidentiality of the record;

f. Any person, upon the order of an Idaho court of competent jurisdiction, where the court finds that disclosure of the record is necessary in the interests of justice; and

g. Any person with the right to control the disposition of remains of a deceased person or to determine provisions not clearly covered in a prearranged funeral plan as authorized in Section 54-1142(1) Idaho Code, in accordance with Section 39-270(b), Idaho Code.

04. Parent. Does not include a biological parent whose parental rights have been terminated.

05. Public Health. The science and art of:

a. Preventing disease, prolonging life, or promoting health and efficiency through organized community effort for the sanitation of the environment;

b. The control of communicable infections;

c. The education of the individual in personal hygiene;

d. The organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease; and

e. The development of the social machinery to ensure everyone a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health, so organizing these benefits as to enable every citizen to realize their birthright of health and longevity.

06. Putative Father. The biological father of a child as identified by himself, the natural mother, an adoption agency, or a court.

07. Registrar. The state Registrar as defined in Section 39-241(18), Idaho Code. The mailing and street address for the state Registrar is Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, 450 W. State St., 1st Floor, PO Box 83720, Boise, Idaho 83720-0036.

08. Research. Organized scientific inquiry or examination of data in order to discover and interpret facts.

09. Statistical Purposes. The collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation of masses of non-identifying numerical information.

Effective March 17, 2022

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