Birth Registration

Adoption.  Prior birth record and adoption decree or other information causing issuance of new record.

SEE ALSO LIMITS ON PUBLIC ACCESS TO CASE RECORDS

No Public Access.  (NOTE:  child may request commissioner of health to disclose original birth record information under M.S. 259.89)

M.S. 144.218, subd. 1; 144.2252 (incorporating M.S. 259.89).

Birth Registration

Illegitimate Child.  Birth record and related data indicating birth out of wedlock.  [See also Parental, Medical, Health and Other Information in next frame, below.]

No Public Access until the first of the following occurs: (1) public access designated by mother on registration form (births on or after 8/1/91) or affidavit (births prior to 8/1/91); (2) 100 years have elapsed since birth; or (3) 10 years have elapsed since actual or presumed death and 30 years elapsed since creation of record.

M.S. 144.225, subd. 2.

Birth Registration

Parental Medical, Health and Other Information.  Information submitted on the Department of Health Record of Live Birth Form that is designated as information for medical and health use only in blocks 28-44 on the second (yellow) page of the form; includes social security numbers of parents and any information from which an identification of risk for disease, disability, or developmental delay in a mother or child can be made.

No Public Access.

M.S. 144.215, subd. 4; 144.225, subd. 2a, 42 U.S.C. §           405(c)(2)(C)(viii).

Birth Registration

Subsequent Marriage of Natural Parents.  Prior birth record, marriage record, and other information causing issuance of new record.

No Public Access.

M.S. 144.218, subd. 3.

Birth Registration

Foundling Registration.  Report of live born infant of unknown parentage.  (Report served as birth record until delayed certificate indicating parentage was filed.)

No Public Access.

M.S. 144.216.

Birth Registration

Incomplete or Incorrect Record.  Prior incomplete or incorrect birth record and information causing issuance of new record.

No Public Access.

M.S. 144.218, subd. 4.

Birth Registration

Legitimate Child Records Interspersed With Illegitimate Child Records.  Birth records interspersed with records that are not accessible to the public.

No Public Access.

M.S. 144.225, subds. 1, 2.

Birth Registration

Acknowledgement or Court Adjudication of Paternity.  Prior birth record, acknowledgement of parentage ("Declaration of Parentage," M.S. 257.34, 257.55, subd. 1(e), executed prior to birth and "Recognition of Parentage," M.S. 257.75, executed after birth) and other information causing issuance of new record.

No Public Access.

M.S. 257.73.

Birth Registration

Certified Copy of Birth Certificate or Statement of No Record Found.

No issuance unless requesting person has a tangible interest as defined in M.S. 144.225, subd. 7.

M.S. 144.225, subd. 7.

Death Registration

Health Risk Data In Fetal Death Reports.  Information in fetal death reports from which an identification of risk for disease, disability, or developmental delay in a mother or child can be made.

No public access.

M.S. 144.225, subd. 2a.

Death Registration

Certified Copy of Death Certificate or Statement of No Record Found.

No issuance unless requesting person has a tangible interest as defined in M.S. 144.225, subd. 7.

M.S. 144.225, subd. 7.

Marriage License Application

Social Security Number.  Social security numbers included in marriage license applications.

No Public Access

M.S. 144.223 (1997 Supp.) 42 U.S.C. § 405(c)(2)(C)(viii).

Marriage License

Application

Illegitimate Child.  Marriage license applications that disclose a birth out of wedlock.

No Public Access.

M.S. 144.225, subds. 1, 2.