The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 18 V.S.A. § 5002)
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§ 5002. Report of vital statistics; preservation of records; authority to issue
The State Registrar shall prepare an annual vital statistics report summarizing reports
or returns of births, marriages, deaths, fetal deaths, divorces, annulments, and dissolutions
received in the prior calendar year. The State Registrar shall periodically transmit
original returns of marriages, divorces, annulments, and dissolutions to the State
Archivist, who shall keep the returns on file for use by the public. The State Registrar
and the State Archivist shall each, independently of the other, have power to issue
certified copies of vital event certificates in their custody. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 27, eff. March 1, 1961; 1969, No. 265 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; 1979, No. 56, § 7; 1999, No. 91 (Adj. Sess.), § 7; 2007, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 7; 2017, No. 46, § 5, eff. July 1, 2019.)