(A) Required.
(1) It shall be the duty of all physicians, midwives, and all other persons now permitted or entitled to practice obstetrics in this state to report all births, deaths, and stillbirths in the city to the City Health Officer on forms prescribed by the State Board of Health.
(2) Stillbirths of 20 weeks gestation and over shall be reported as both births and deaths and when any death, birth, or stillbirth may occur with no physician or midwife in attendance, the same shall be reported by the householder or other person in charge at the death, birth, or stillbirth.
(Prior Code, § 91.015)
(B) When due. All reports required in division (A) above shall be made to the City Health Officer within three days after the occurrence is known and no burial permit shall be issued by the City Health Officer or his or her deputy until a complete death certificate has been filed.
(Prior Code, § 91.016)
(C) Maintenance.
(1) All records of births and deaths shall be kept and preserved in the office of the City Health Officer at the City Hall.
(2) The City Health Officer shall procure suitable books at the expense of the city, the form of which shall be prescribed by the State Board of Health, in which the pertinent information contained in the birth and death reports shall be entered, and the book or books shall be kept and preserved as other public records.
(3) The City Health Officer shall copy in the records the reports of births, deaths, and stillbirths filed in his or her office and shall forward the original certificate to the State Board of Health within three days.
(4) The City Health Officer shall comply with the rules and regulations of the State Board of Health concerning the reports of births and deaths.
(Prior Code, § 91.017)