Wyoming Administrative Code
Agency 048 - Health, Department of
Sub-Agency 0059 - Vital Records Services
Chapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 1-2 - Definitions

(a) "Attendant at birth" means the person who assists the mother in giving birth.

(b) "Certificate" means a form provided by Vital Statistics Services for the registration of a birth, death, stillbirth, marriage, divorce or foreign-born adoption.

(c) "Certified copy," means any reproduction of a vital record bearing the seal of Vital Statistics Services and the signature of the State Registrar or of a designated representative, or the authorized facsimile thereof.

(d) "Certifier" means the person who signs the certificate attesting to the time, date, place of the birth or cause of death.

(e) "Court of competent jurisdiction" means a Wyoming district court, a court of comparable jurisdiction in another state, or a federal or tribal court.

(f) "Conformed copy" means a clerk stamped copy of the exact copy of an original document that was filed with a clerk. The clerk may not certify conformed copies of vital records.

(g) "Delayed certificate" means a certificate of a birth, death or marriage registered one year or more after the date of the occurrence, which is prepared and filed by the State Registrar.

(h) "Deputy local registrar" means the person appointed by the State Registrar or designee to perform the duties of the local registrar in the absence or incapacity of the local registrar.

(i) "Documentary evidence" means an original, official, or legal paper, which is used to furnish proof for correcting a certificate or for establishing a delayed certificate. It includes, but is not limited to census, hospital, and school records.

(j) "Form" means any document with blanks for the insertion of details or information, supplied or approved by Vital Statistics Services for use in the vital records system.

(k) "Foundling" means a living child of unknown parentage, also known as a "safe haven" child.

(l) "Health care facility" means any establishment, public or private, which provides in-patient or outpatient medical care.

(m) "Immediate family" means the mother, father, child or spouse of the deceased person.

(n) "Informant" means the person supplying the personal information regarding the registrant required by a birth or death certificate.

(o) "Legal age" means the statutory age of majority.

(p) "Legal parents" means those parents recognized as such under law.

(q) "Local registrar" means the person appointed by the State Registrar to promote and supervise vital registration in his assigned registration district.

(r) "Natural father" means the biological father.

(s) "Natural parents" means, the biological parents.

(t) "Next of kin" means the surviving spouse of the decedent, or if there is no surviving spouse, the closest living relative.

(u) "Personal particulars" means any of the following items required on a birth certificate: parent's state of birth, parent's date of birth, parent's age at the time of the child's birth, mother's residence.

(v) "Registrant" means the person to whom the certificate pertains.

(w) "Registration" means the acceptance by Vital Statistics Services and the incorporation in its official records of certificates of births, deaths, stillbirths, marriages, and divorces.

(x) "System of vital records" includes the registration, collection, preservation, amendment, and certification of vital records and activities related thereto including the tabulation, analysis, and publication of statistical data derived from such records.

(y) "True copy" means a copy of a document that is authenticated to be an official copy of the original.

(z) "Vital records" means certificates of birth, death, stillbirth, marriage, and divorce; other forms used in the vital records system; and data relating thereto.

(aa) "Vital Statistics Services" means the state office established by the Department of Health to operate the system of vital records throughout the state.