1554 ARTICLE 43.

The State Registrar shall certify on each certificate the total amount
owing to the person to whom such certificate is issued, provided that the
State Registrar shall certify separately the number of incomplete, defec-
tive or belated certificates, and for such incomplete, defective or belated
certificates a fee shall be certified equal to one-half the amount of compen-
sation provided in this Section for proper and correct certificates and
records of births and deaths.

Local and deputy local registrars are entitled to receive a fee of twenty-
five cents from the applicant for each burial permit issued upon the pres-
entation of a transportation permit from the District of Columbia or any
other State, and for each disinterment permit issued in accordance with
the provisions of Section 22 of this Article.

An. Code, sec. 18. 1904, sec. 17. 1898, ch. 312, sec. 6L. 1912, ch. 696, sec. 17.

27. The State Registrar may upon request furnish any applicant for
proper purposes a certified copy of the record of any birth or death regis-
tered under the provisions of this sub-title, and any such copy of the record
of a birth or death, when properly certified by the State registrar to be a
true copy thereof, shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and places
of the facts therein stated. For each such certified statement he shall re-
ceive a fee of fifty cents, together with payment for the time of search, if
over half an hour, at the rate of fifty cents an hour, to be paid by the
applicant.

An. Code, sec. 19. 1904, sec. 18. 1898, ch. 312, sec. 6M. 1912, ch. 696, sec. 18.

1920, ch. 317, sec. 19.

28. Any physician who was in medical attendance upon any deceased
person at the time of death, who shall neglect or refuse to make out, sign
and deliver to the undertaker, sexton or other person in charge of the in-
terment, removal or other disposition of the body, the certificate of death
hereinbefore provided for, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than five dollars, nor more
than fifty dollars. And if any physician shall knowingly make a false
certification of the cause of death, in any case, he shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than
fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars.

And any physician or midwife in attendance upon a case of confinement,
or any other person charged with responsibility for reporting births, in the
order named in Sections 23 and 24 of this Article who shall neglect or re-
fuse to file a proper certificate of birth with the local or deputy local regis-
trar within the time required by this Article shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than five
nor more than fifty dollars.

And any undertaker, sexton or other person acting as undertaker, who
shall inter, remove or otherwise dispose of the body of any deceased per-
son, without having received a burial or removal permit as hereinbefore
provided, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof, shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than one hundred
dollars.