638 HEALTH. [ART. 43

Failure of any county registrar, local registrar or deputy local regis-
trar of vital statistics to qualify within ten days after his appointment
shall also be held to vacate his office. Each local registrar shall imme-
diately appoint a deputy local registrar whose duty it shall be to act
in his stead in case of absence, illness or disability, or where such action
is necessary for the public health or convenience. Such deputy local
registrars shall accept in writing such appointment, and shall be subject
to all rules and regulations governing local registrars.*

1904, art. 43, sec. 8. 1898, ch. 312, sec. 6B. 1900, ch. 431. 1912, ch. 696, sec. 8.

1914, ch. 747, sec. 8.

9. Each election district, city and incorporated town shall consti-
tute a registration district; provided, the State Registrar may com-
bine two or more registration districts in any county into one registra-
tion district, provided the total population of the districts so combined
does not exceed one hundred thousand. The County Registrar shall,
with the advice and consent of the Local Board of Health, designate a
competent person in each registration district who shall act as local
registrar, and shall within the district for which he is appointed receive
death certificates and issue burial permits upon the same and receive
birth certificates and perform such other services under this Act as the
Local Board of Health may direct, provided that when, in the judg-
ment of the State Registrar of Vital Statistics, it is necessary to
appoint more than one deputy local registrar in any registration dis-
trict, the State Registrar shall authorize and direct the Local Registrar
of Vital Statistics to designate and appoint as many additional com-
petent persons to act as deputy local registrar as the said State Regis-
trar may deem necessary. Each deputy local registrar appointed as
herein provided shall accept the appointment in writing, and it shall
be his duty to act as local registrar in his stead in case of absence,
illness or disability, and when it is necessary in order to promote-public
convenience to do so, and who shall be subject to all rules and regula-
tions governing local registrars. No local registrar or deputy local
registrar shall issue any permit for the disposition of any dead body
excepting upon the presentation of a proper and correct certificate of
death, nor shall he in any case issue a permit for the disposition of any
body already interred, entombed, transported, removed, cremated or in
any other manner disposed of except as provided in sections 9, 11-13,
15-17 and 21. Each deputy local registrar shall, on the last day of each
month, transmit to the local registrar all certificates of birth or death
in his possession.

Every local registrar shall on or before the fifth day of each month
transmit to the State Registrar of Vital Statistics in the envelopes fur-
nished for that purpose the originals of all certificates of birth or death
remaining in his possession on the last day of the month next preced-

*The act of 1912, chapter 696, went into effect July 1, 1912. See the title of
the act of 1912, chapter 696.