EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1607

SEC. 7. Health officers of the various Counties shall be ex-
officio county registrars of vital statistics. Health officers of all
towns of five thousand population and over shall be ex-officio
local registrars of vital statistics. All county registrars,
local registrars and deputy local registrars of vital statistics
shall qualify by oath to perform faithfully their duties as such
and all county, local and deputy local registrars shall imme-
diately upon their appointment and qualification notify the
State Registrar of Vital Statistics of such appointment and
qualification in writing, and failure to do so within a
period of ten days after the date of their qualification shall be
held to vacate their office. Failure of any county registrar, local
registrar or deputy local registrar of vital statistics to qualify
within ten days after his appointment shall also be held to va-
cate his office. Each local registrar shall immediately 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 appoint-
ment, and shall be subject to all rules and regulations govern-
ing local registrars.

SEC. 8. Each election district, city and incorporated town
shall constitute a registration district; provided, the State Reg-
istrar may combine two or more registration districts in any
county into one registration district. 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 per-
form such other services under this Act as the Local
Board of Health may direct, provided, that when, in
the judgment of the State Registrar of Vital Statistics,
it is necessary to appoint more than one deputy local
registrar in any registration district, the State Registrar
shall authorize and direct the local registrar of vital statistics
to designate and appoint as many additional competent persons
to act as deputy local registrars as the State Registrar may
deem necessary. The Mayor of any incorporated town of less
than five thousand population shall, with the advice and con-
sent of the State Registrar of Vital Statistics, appoint a com-
petent person to act as local registrar. In any district in which
the local registrar is not appointed within one month after an