Florida Statutes Chapter 382 — VITAL STATISTICS

From the Legislature's 2026 edition, which includes changes effective through January 1, 2027. Later effective dates are retained in each section's source notes.

Title XXIX

• § 382.001 — Short title.
• § 382.002 — Definitions.
• § 382.003 — Powers and duties of the department.
• § 382.004 — Reproduction and destruction of records.
• § 382.005 — Duties of local registrars.
• § 382.006 — Burial-transit permit.
• § 382.007 — Final dispositions prohibited without burial-transit permit; records of dead bodies disposed.
• § 382.008 — Death, fetal death, and nonviable birth registration.
• § 382.0085 — Stillbirth registration.
• § 382.0086 — Certificate of nonviable birth.
• § 382.009 — Recognition of brain death under certain circumstances.
• § 382.011 — Medical examiner determination of cause of death.
• § 382.012 — Presumptive death certificate.
• § 382.013 — Birth registration.
• § 382.0135 — Social security numbers; enumeration-at-birth program.
• § 382.015 — New certificates of live birth; duty of clerks of court and department.
• § 382.016 — Amendment of records.
• § 382.017 — Foreign births.
• § 382.019 — Delayed registration; administrative procedures.
• § 382.0195 — Court-issued delayed birth certificate.
• § 382.021 — Department to receive marriage licenses.
• § 382.022 — Marriage application fees.
• § 382.023 — Department to receive dissolution-of-marriage records; fees.
• § 382.025 — Certified copies of vital records; confidentiality; research.
• § 382.0255 — Fees.
• § 382.026 — Penalties.
• § 382.355 — Birth records of missing children, registrars’ duties.
• § 382.356 — Protocol for sharing certain birth certificate information.