Iowa Administrative Code
Agency 641 - Public Health Department
Chapter 95 - Vital Records: General Administration
Rule 641-95.17 - Unlawful Acts
Universal Citation: IA Admin Code 641-95.17
Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 6, September 18, 2024
(1) Serious misdemeanors. Any person who reports information required under Iowa Code chapter 144 and who commits any of the following acts is guilty of a serious misdemeanor:
a. Willfully and
knowingly makes any false statement in a report, record, or certificate
required to be filed or in an application for an amendment or willfully and
knowingly supplies false information intending that such information be used in
the preparation or amendment of any such report, record, or
certificate.
b. Without lawful
authority and with the intent to deceive, makes, alters, amends, or mutilates
any report, record, or certificate required to be filed or a certified copy of
such report, record, or certificate.
c. Willfully and knowingly uses or attempts
to use or furnish to another for use for any purpose of deception any
certificate, record, or report or certified copy thereof.
d. Willfully and knowingly alters, amends, or
mutilates any copy, certified copy, record or report.
e. Willfully, with the intent to deceive,
uses or attempts to use any certificate of birth or certified copy of a record
of birth knowing that such certificate or certified copy was issued based upon
a record which is false in whole or in part or which relates to the birth of
another person.
f. Willfully and
knowingly furnishes a certificate of birth or certified copy of a record of
birth with the intention that it be used by a person other than the person to
whose birth the record relates.
g.
Disinterring a body in violation of Iowa Code section
144.34.
h. Knowingly violates a provision of Iowa
Code section 144.29A.
(2) Simple misdemeanors. Any person committing any of the following acts is guilty of a simple misdemeanor:
a. Knowingly transports or accepts for
transportation, interment, or other disposition a dead body without an
accompanying permit as provided in Iowa Code sections
144.32,
144.33, and
144.34.
b. Refuses to provide information required by
Iowa Code chapter 144.
c. Willfully
violates any of the provisions of Iowa Code chapter 144 or refuses to perform
any of the duties imposed upon the person.
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