There shall be appointed annually by the Board of Health, at the first regular meeting in January of each year, a suitable person to be Registrar of Vital Statistics in and for the Borough of Rutherford.
In addition to the duties prescribed by law to be performed by such officer, the Registrar of Vital Statistics shall perform such other duties as may from time to time be required by the Board of Health. He shall, in addition to transmitting all certificates of marriages, births and deaths received by him to the State Bureau of Vital Statistics, report the same to the local Board of Health at least once in each month.
The return of all marriage, birth and death certificates required by law or by an ordinance of the Board of Health to be made by physicians, midwives, nurses, clergymen, magistrates and other persons professionally officiating at such marriage, birth or death shall be made to the Registrar of Vital Statistics.
[Added 3-10-1958 by Ord. No. 1-58; amended 4-23-1990 by Ord. No. BH 1-90; 10-25-2004 by Ord. No. BH 3-04]
Certified copies of marriage, birth or death records, certified copies of certificates of domestic partnerships and vital records abstract certifications, certified to be correct under the seal of the Board of Health Registrar of Vital Statistics shall be issued upon payment a fee of $5 for each certified copy.