Act No. 54
Public Acts of 1997
Approved by the Governor
June 30, 1997
Filed with the Secretary of State
July 1, 1997
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 1997
STATE OF MICHIGAN
89TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 1997
Introduced by Senators Geake, Koivisto, McManus, Gast, Steil, Emmons, Stille, Stallings and Gougeon
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 128
AN ACT to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled "An act to protect and promote the public health; to codify, revise, consolidate, classify, and add to the laws relating to public health; to provide for the prevention and control of diseases and disabilities; to provide for the classification, administration, regulation, financing, and maintenance of personal, environmental, and other health services and activities; to create or continue, and prescribe the powers and duties of, departments, boards, commissions, councils, committees, task forces, and other agencies; to prescribe the powers and duties of governmental entities and officials; to regulate occupations, facilities, and agencies affecting the public health; to regulate health maintenance organizations and certain third party administrators and insurers; to provide for the imposition of a regulatory fee; to promote the efficient and economical delivery of health care services, to provide for the appropriate utilization of health care facilities and services, and to provide for the closure of hospitals or consolidation of hospitals or services; to provide for the collection and use of data and information; to provide for the transfer of property; to provide certain immunity from liability; to regulate and prohibit the sale and offering for sale of drug paraphernalia under certain circumstances; to provide for penalties and remedies; to provide for sanctions for violations of this act and local ordinances; to repeal certain acts and parts of acts; to repeal certain parts of this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates," by amending section 2882 (MCL 333.2882), as amended by 1996 PA 307.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 2882. (1) Except as otherwise provided in section 2890, upon written request and payment of the prescribed fee, the state registrar or local registrar shall issue the appropriate 1 of the following:
(a) A certified copy of a live birth record, a certificate of registration containing the items indicated in section 2881(2), or a certified copy of documentary evidence on file in the office of the state registrar that is not sealed under section 2832 and that served as the basis for a change of a live birth record to 1 of the following:
(i) The individual who is the subject of the live birth record.
(ii) A parent named in the birth record.
(iii) An heir, a legal representative, or a legal guardian of the individual who is the subject of the live birth record.
(iv) A court of competent jurisdiction.
(b) If the live birth record is 110 or more years old, a certified copy of the live birth record to any applicant.
(c) A certified copy of a death record, including the cause of death, to any applicant.
(d) A certified copy of a marriage or divorce record to any applicant, except as provided by rule.
(e) A certified copy of a fetal death record that was filed before September 30, 1978, to any applicant.
(f) A certified copy of an acknowledgment of parentage that was filed after January 1, 1997, to any applicant.
(2) Upon written request of an adult who has been adopted and payment of the prescribed fee, the state registrar shall issue to that individual a copy of his or her original certificate of live birth, if the written request identifies the name of the adult adoptee and is accompanied by a copy of a central adoption registry clearance reply form that was completed by the family independence agency and delivered to that individual as required by section 68(9) of the Michigan adoption code, chapter X of 1939 PA 288, MCL 710.68.
(3) Upon written request of a confidential intermediary appointed under section 68b of the Michigan adoption code, chapter X of 1939 PA 288, MCL 710.68b, presentation of a certified copy of the order of appointment, identification of the name of the adult adoptee, and payment of the required fee, the state registrar shall issue to the confidential intermediary a copy of the original certificate of live birth of the adult adoptee on whose behalf the intermediary was appointed.
(4) A copy of the original certificate of live birth provided under subsection (2) or (3) shall have the following phrase marked on the face of the copy: "This document is a copy of a sealed record and is not the active birth certificate of the individual whose name appears on this document".
 
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate.
Clerk of the House of Representatives.
Approved
Governor.