HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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with normal children, and whether or not it ought to have
clinical, therapeutic, or hospital treatment[, and such
Board]. THE SECRETARY shall appropriately classify each
such child according to the nature and degree of its
disability and report such classification and
recommendations to the county board of education wherever
such child resides, and also the State Board of Education.

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(a) (10) EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE INDICATED, "HEALTH

OFFICER" MEANS THE BALTIMORE CITY COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH OR
THE HEALTH OFFICER FOR A COUNTY.

(b) (1) Methods, Books and Forms. The [State Board]
SECRETARY of Health and Mental Hygiene shall collect
certificates of birth, death and fetal death, shall preserve
and protect them from loss by fire and other damage, and
shall make indices to such certificates. [It] THE SECRETARY
shall decide appropriate methods and design the necessary
forms for accurate registration of vital records, and shall
supply [local] health officers, physicians, midwives,
funeral directors, ministers, clerks of court, and other
persons charged with any duty under this subtitle, with the
required forms. Upon receipt of a completed birth, death,
or fetal death certificate, the [State Board of Health and
Mental Hygiene] SECRETARY shall forward a copy of the
original certificate to the [county] health officer
concerned. The [State Board of Health and Mental Hygiene]
SECRETARY shall prepare annually or more often reports of
vital statistics including population estimates, and shall
have such reports printed and distributed to officials,
departments, libraries, and persons whom it may deem
entitled thereto.

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[Local health] HEALTH officers of the several counties
shall be ex officio county registrars of vital records. The
commissioner of health of Baltimore City shall be ex officio
registrar of vital records of Baltimore City. The Secretary
of Health and Mental Hygiene shall appoint a State registrar
of vital records. The State registrar will be in the
classified service and shall be appointed in accordance with
the provisions of Article 64A, titled Merit System.

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(e) A permit for disinterment and reinterment shall be
required prior to disinterment of a dead body or fetus
provided that reinterment is not to be made in the same
cemetery. Such permit shall be issued by the [State Board]
SECRETARY of Health and Mental Hygiene or the [local] health
officer, upon receipt of an application form prescribed by
the [State Board of Health and Mental Hygiene] SECRETARY
under the provisions of this subtitle. When it is proposed
to disinter all of the bodies in a cemetery for purposes of