Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 15 - Mississippi Department of Health
Part 5 - Office of Health Informatics
Subpart 85 - Public Health Statistics
Chapter 3 - Registration of Live Births
Subchapter 8 - Delayed Registration of Birth by Affidavit
Rule 15-5-85-3.8.16

When an applicant does not submit the documentation required for delayed registration, or when the State Registrar has reasonable cause to question the validity or adequacy of the applicant's sworn statement or the documentary evidence, and if the deficiencies are not corrected, the State Registrar shall not register the delayed certificate. However, the applicant may file a petition for a delayed certificate of birth under the provisions of Section 41-57-19 of the Mississippi Code of 1972, Annotated.

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-1; Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-7; Miss. Code Ann. § 41-57-19