§ 23-3-1 - Definitions.
SECTION 23-3-1
§ 23-3-1 Definitions. – As used in this chapter:
(1) "Community of resident" means the city or town within thestate of a person's home address at the time of his or her marriage or death,or of his or her mother's home address at the time of his or her birth.
(2) "Dead body" means a lifeless human body or parts of alifeless human body or its bones from the state of which it reasonably may beconcluded that death recently occurred.
(3) "Fetal death" means death prior to the complete expulsionor extraction from its mother of a product of human conception, irrespective ofthe duration of pregnancy; the death is indicated by the fact that after theexpulsion or extraction the fetus does not breathe or show any other evidenceof life such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, ordefinite movement of the voluntary muscles.
(4) "Filing" means the presentation of a certificate, report,or other record provided for in this chapter, of a birth, death, fetal death,adoption, marriage, or divorce for registration by the division of vitalrecords.
(5) "Final disposition" means the burial, interment,cremation, or other disposition of a dead body or fetus.
(6) "Institution" means any establishment, public or private,which provides in-patient medical, surgical, or diagnostic care or treatment,or nursing, custodial or domiciliary care to two (2) or more unrelatedindividuals, or to which persons are committed by law.
(7) "Live birth" means the complete expulsion or extractionfrom its mother of a product of human conception, irrespective of the durationof pregnancy, which, after that expulsion or extraction, breathes or shows anyother evidences of life such as beating of the heart, pulsation of theumbilical cord, or definite movement of the voluntary muscles, whether or notthe umbilical cord has been cut or the placenta is attached.
(8) "Physician" means a person authorized or licensed topractice medicine pursuant to chapter 37 of title 5.
(9) "Registration" means the acceptance by the division ofvital records and the incorporation in its official records of certificates,reports, or other records provided for in this chapter, or births, deaths,fetal deaths, adoptions, marriages, or divorces.
(10) "Signing" or "Signature" means the application of eithera hand signature to a paper record or an electronic process approved by thestate registrar of vital records.
(11) "System of vital records" means the registration,collection, preservation, amendment, and certification of vital statisticsrecords, and activities related to them including the tabulation, analysis, andpublication of statistical data derived from those records.
(12) "Vital records" means records of birth, death, fetaldeath, marriage, divorce, and data related to those records.