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If the State Registrar denies disclosure of information or inspection of or copying of vital records, such person may petition the court of the county or city in which he resides if he resides in the Commonwealth or in which the recorded event occurred or the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond, Division I, for an order compelling disclosure, inspection or copying of such vital record. The State Registrar or his authorized representative may appear and testify in such proceeding.D\n\nWhen 100 years have elapsed after the date of birth, or 25 years have elapsed after the date of death, marriage, divorce, or annulment the records of these events in the custody of the State Registrar shall, unless precluded from release by statute or court order, or at law-enforcement request, become public information and be made available in accordance with regulations that shall provide for the continued safekeeping of the records. All records that are public information on July 1, 1983, shall continue to be public information. Original records in the custody of the State Registrar that become public information shall be turned over to the Library of Virginia for safekeeping and for public access consistent with other state archival records, subject to the State Registrar and the Library of Virginia entering into a memorandum of understanding to arrange for continued prompt access by the State Registrar to original records for purposes of amendments to those records or other working purposes. The State Registrar’s office may retain copies thereof for its own administrative and disclosure purposes.E\n\nThe State Registrar or the city or county registrar shall disclose data about or issue a certified copy of a birth certificate of a child to the grandparent of the child upon the written request of the grandparent when the grandparent has demonstrated to the State Registrar evidence of need, as prescribed by Board regulation, for the data or birth certificate.F\n\nThe State Registrar or the city or county registrar shall issue a certified copy of a death certificate to the grandchild or great-grandchild of a decedent in accordance with procedures prescribed by the Board in regulation.G\n\nThe State Registrar or the city or county registrar shall disclose data about or issue a certified copy of a death certificate to a nonprofit organ, eye or tissue procurement organization that is a member of the Virginia Transplant Council for the purpose of determining the suitability of organs, eyes and tissues for donation, as prescribed by the Board in regulations. Such regulations shall ensure that the information disclosed includes the cause of death and any other medical information necessary to determine the suitability of the organs, eyes, and tissues for donation.H\n\nThe State Registrar shall seek to enter into a long-term contract with a private company experienced in maintaining genealogical research databases to create, maintain, and update such an online index at no direct cost to the Commonwealth, in exchange for allowing the private company to also provide such index to its subscribers and customers. The online index shall be designed and constructed to have the capability of allowing birth, marriage, divorce, and death entries on the index to be linked to a digital image of the underlying original birth, marriage, divorce, or death record once any such underlying record has become public information, and the index shall be designed to allow the Library of Virginia to create and activate such links to digital images of the original records. Any social security numbers appearing on original birth, marriage, divorce, or death records shall be redacted from the digital images provided to the public in the manner provided by law, which may include bulk redaction of social security fields from the images via automated methods.\n\t\t\tFollowing contract implementation, the State Registrar shall maintain a publicly available online vital records index or indexes, consisting at a minimum of name, date, and county or city of occurrence for births (naming the child), marriages (naming the spouses), divorces (naming the parties to the divorce), and deaths (naming the decedent), which vital records index information, except as otherwise precluded from release by statute, court order, or law-enforcement request, shall be public information from the time of its receipt by the State Registrar and shall be accessible on the State Registrar’s website and on or through the Library of Virginia website.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":204890,"text":"To protect the integrity of vital records and to ensure the efficient and proper administration of the system of vital records, it is unlawful, notwithstanding the provisions of §§ 2.2-3700 through 2.2-3714, for any person to permit inspection of or to disclose information contained in vital records or to copy or issue a copy of all or part of any such vital records except as authorized by this section or regulation of the Board or when so ordered by a court of the Commonwealth.","type":"section","prefixes":["A"],"prefix":"A","entire_prefix":"A","prefix_anchor":"A","level":1,"next_prefix":"B"},"1":{"id":204891,"text":"Data contained in vital records may be disclosed for valid and substantial research purposes in accordance with the regulations of the Board.","type":"section","prefixes":["B"],"prefix":"B","entire_prefix":"B","prefix_anchor":"B","level":1,"prior_prefix":"A","next_prefix":"C"},"2":{"id":204892,"text":"Any person aggrieved by a decision of a county or city registrar may appeal to the State Registrar. If the State Registrar denies disclosure of information or inspection of or copying of vital records, such person may petition the court of the county or city in which he resides if he resides in the Commonwealth or in which the recorded event occurred or the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond, Division I, for an order compelling disclosure, inspection or copying of such vital record. The State Registrar or his authorized representative may appear and testify in such proceeding.","type":"section","prefixes":["C"],"prefix":"C","entire_prefix":"C","prefix_anchor":"C","level":1,"prior_prefix":"B","next_prefix":"D"},"3":{"id":204893,"text":"When 100 years have elapsed after the date of birth, or 25 years have elapsed after the date of death, marriage, divorce, or annulment the records of these events in the custody of the State Registrar shall, unless precluded from release by statute or court order, or at law-enforcement request, become public information and be made available in accordance with regulations that shall provide for the continued safekeeping of the records. All records that are public information on July 1, 1983, shall continue to be public information. Original records in the custody of the State Registrar that become public information shall be turned over to the Library of Virginia for safekeeping and for public access consistent with other state archival records, subject to the State Registrar and the Library of Virginia entering into a memorandum of understanding to arrange for continued prompt access by the State Registrar to original records for purposes of amendments to those records or other working purposes. The State Registrar’s office may retain copies thereof for its own administrative and disclosure purposes.","type":"section","prefixes":["D"],"prefix":"D","entire_prefix":"D","prefix_anchor":"D","level":1,"prior_prefix":"C","next_prefix":"E"},"4":{"id":204894,"text":"The State Registrar or the city or county registrar shall disclose data about or issue a certified copy of a birth certificate of a child to the grandparent of the child upon the written request of the grandparent when the grandparent has demonstrated to the State Registrar evidence of need, as prescribed by Board regulation, for the data or birth certificate.","type":"section","prefixes":["E"],"prefix":"E","entire_prefix":"E","prefix_anchor":"E","level":1,"prior_prefix":"D","next_prefix":"F"},"5":{"id":204895,"text":"The State Registrar or the city or county registrar shall issue a certified copy of a death certificate to the grandchild or great-grandchild of a decedent in accordance with procedures prescribed by the Board in regulation.","type":"section","prefixes":["F"],"prefix":"F","entire_prefix":"F","prefix_anchor":"F","level":1,"prior_prefix":"E","next_prefix":"G"},"6":{"id":204896,"text":"The State Registrar or the city or county registrar shall disclose data about or issue a certified copy of a death certificate to a nonprofit organ, eye or tissue procurement organization that is a member of the Virginia Transplant Council for the purpose of determining the suitability of organs, eyes and tissues for donation, as prescribed by the Board in regulations. Such regulations shall ensure that the information disclosed includes the cause of death and any other medical information necessary to determine the suitability of the organs, eyes, and tissues for donation.","type":"section","prefixes":["G"],"prefix":"G","entire_prefix":"G","prefix_anchor":"G","level":1,"prior_prefix":"F","next_prefix":"H"},"7":{"id":204897,"text":"The State Registrar shall seek to enter into a long-term contract with a private company experienced in maintaining genealogical research databases to create, maintain, and update such an online index at no direct cost to the Commonwealth, in exchange for allowing the private company to also provide such index to its subscribers and customers. The online index shall be designed and constructed to have the capability of allowing birth, marriage, divorce, and death entries on the index to be linked to a digital image of the underlying original birth, marriage, divorce, or death record once any such underlying record has become public information, and the index shall be designed to allow the Library of Virginia to create and activate such links to digital images of the original records. Any social security numbers appearing on original birth, marriage, divorce, or death records shall be redacted from the digital images provided to the public in the manner provided by law, which may include bulk redaction of social security fields from the images via automated methods.\n\t\t\tFollowing contract implementation, the State Registrar shall maintain a publicly available online vital records index or indexes, consisting at a minimum of name, date, and county or city of occurrence for births (naming the child), marriages (naming the spouses), divorces (naming the parties to the divorce), and deaths (naming the decedent), which vital records index information, except as otherwise precluded from release by statute, court order, or law-enforcement request, shall be public information from the time of its receipt by the State Registrar and shall be accessible on the State Registrar’s website and on or through the Library of Virginia website.","type":"section","prefixes":["H"],"prefix":"H","entire_prefix":"H","prefix_anchor":"H","level":1,"prior_prefix":"G"}},"ancestry":[{"id":14508,"edition_id":1,"name":"Miscellaneous Provisions","identifier":"7","label":"article","depth":3,"order_by":1,"parent_id":14405,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:48:25","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:48:25","permalink":{"id":204281,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":14508,"identifier":"7","token":"32.1\/7\/7","url":"\/32.1\/7\/7\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":14405,"edition_id":1,"name":"Vital Records","identifier":"7","label":"chapter","depth":2,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12727,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:48:01","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:48:01","permalink":{"id":204163,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":14405,"identifier":"7","token":"32.1\/7","url":"\/32.1\/7\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12727,"edition_id":1,"name":"Health","identifier":"32.1","label":"title","depth":1,"order_by":1,"parent_id":null,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:50","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:50","permalink":{"id":201099,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12727,"identifier":"32.1","token":"32.1","url":"\/32.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}}],"structure_contents":[{"id":68994,"structure_id":14508,"section_number":"32.1-270","catch_line":"State Registrar may reproduce records; 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The record of this law\u2019s original creation isn\u2019t available online. It has been modified 10 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1960, chapter 451; in 1979, chapter 711; in 1983, chapter 240; in 1984, chapter 189; in 1985, chapter 313; in 2005, chapter 60<\/a>; in 2009, chapter 505<\/a>; in 2011, chapter 109<\/a>; in 2012, chapters 16<\/a> and 356<\/a>; in 2020, chapter 900<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":64197,"section_number":"24.2-408","catch_line":"State Registrar of Vital Records to transmit weekly lists of decedents to Department of Elections","order_by":null,"url":"\/24.2-408\/"},{"id":79948,"section_number":"32.1-261","catch_line":"New certificate of birth established on proof of adoption, legitimation, or determination of paternity, or change of sex","order_by":null,"url":"\/32.1-261\/"},{"id":60853,"section_number":"32.1-272","catch_line":"Certified copies of vital records; other copies","order_by":null,"url":"\/32.1-272\/"},{"id":59994,"section_number":"32.1-78","catch_line":"Reporting information about children with health problems or disabilities","order_by":null,"url":"\/32.1-78\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":55569,"section_number":"2.2-3700","catch_line":"Short title; policy","order_by":null,"url":"\/2.2-3700\/"},{"id":73159,"section_number":"2.2-3714","catch_line":"Violations and penalties","order_by":null,"url":"\/2.2-3714\/"}],"permalink":{"id":204287,"object_type":"law","relational_id":55927,"identifier":"32.1-271","token":"32.1\/7\/7\/32.1-271","url":"\/32.1-271\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/32.1-271\/","token":"32.1\/7\/7\/32.1-271","dublin_core":{"Title":"Disclosure of information in records; when unlawful; when permitted; proceeding to compel disclosure; when certain records made public","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 32.1-271","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> To protect the integrity of vital records and to ensure the efficient and proper administration of the system of vital records<\/span>, it is unlawful, notwithstanding the provisions of §§ 2.2-3700<\/a> through 2.2-3714<\/a>, for any person<\/span> to permit inspection of or to disclose information contained in vital records or to copy or issue<\/span> a copy of all or part of any such vital records except as authorized by this section or regulation of the Board<\/span> or when so ordered by a court<\/span> of the Commonwealth. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> Data contained in vital records may be disclosed for valid and substantial research purposes in accordance with the regulations of the Board<\/span>. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

C.<\/span> Any person<\/span> aggrieved by a decision of a county or city registrar may appeal<\/span> to the State Registrar. If the State Registrar denies disclosure of information or inspection of or copying of vital records, such person<\/span> may petition<\/span> the court<\/span> of the county or city in which he resides if he resides in the Commonwealth or in which the recorded event occurred or the Circuit<\/span> Court<\/span> of the City of Richmond, Division I, for an order<\/span> compelling disclosure, inspection or copying of such vital record. The State Registrar or his authorized representative may appear and testify in such proceeding. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

D.<\/span> When 100 years have elapsed after the date of birth, or 25 years have elapsed after the date of death, marriage, divorce, or annulment<\/span> the records of these events in the custody<\/span> of the State Registrar shall, unless precluded from release by statute<\/span> or court order<\/span>, or at law<\/span>-enforcement request, become public information and be made available in accordance with regulations that shall provide for the continued safekeeping of the records. All records that are public information on July 1, 1983, shall continue to be public information. Original records in the custody<\/span> of the State Registrar that become public information shall be turned over to the Library of Virginia for safekeeping and for public access consistent with other state archival records, subject to the State Registrar and the Library of Virginia entering into a memorandum<\/span> of understanding to arrange for continued prompt access by the State Registrar to original records for purposes of amendments to those records or other working purposes. The State Registrar’s office may retain copies thereof for its own administrative and disclosure purposes. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

E.<\/span> The State Registrar or the city or county registrar shall disclose data about or issue<\/span> a certified copy of a birth certificate of a child to the grandparent of the child upon the written request of the grandparent when the grandparent has demonstrated to the State Registrar evidence<\/span> of need, as prescribed by Board<\/span> regulation, for the data or birth certificate. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

F.<\/span> The State Registrar or the city or county registrar shall issue<\/span> a certified copy of a death certificate to the grandchild or great-grandchild of a decedent in accordance with procedures prescribed by the Board<\/span> in regulation. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

G.<\/span> The State Registrar or the city or county registrar shall disclose data about or issue<\/span> a certified copy of a death certificate to a nonprofit organ, eye or tissue procurement organization that is a member of the Virginia Transplant Council for the purpose of determining the suitability of organs, eyes and tissues for donation, as prescribed by the Board<\/span> in regulations. Such regulations shall ensure that the information disclosed includes the cause of death and any other medical information necessary to determine the suitability of the organs, eyes, and tissues for donation. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

H.<\/span> The State Registrar shall seek to enter into a long-term contract<\/span> with a private company experienced in maintaining genealogical research databases to create, maintain, and update such an online index at no direct cost to the Commonwealth, in exchange for allowing the private company to also provide such index to its subscribers and customers. The online index shall be designed and constructed to have the capability of allowing birth, marriage, divorce, and death entries on the index to be linked to a digital image of the underlying original birth, marriage, divorce, or death record once any such underlying record has become public information, and the index shall be designed to allow the Library of Virginia to create and activate such links to digital images of the original records. Any social security numbers appearing on original birth, marriage, divorce, or death records shall be redacted from the digital images provided to the public in the manner provided by law<\/span>, which may include bulk redaction of social security fields from the images via automated methods.\n\t\t\tFollowing contract<\/span> implementation, the State Registrar shall maintain a publicly available online vital records index or indexes, consisting at a minimum of name, date, and county or city of occurrence for births (naming the child), marriages (naming the spouses), divorces (naming the parties to the divorce), and deaths (naming the decedent), which vital records index information, except as otherwise precluded from release by statute<\/span>, court order<\/span>, or law<\/span>-enforcement request, shall be public information from the time of its receipt by the State Registrar and shall be accessible on the State Registrar’s website and on or through the Library of Virginia website. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nDISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION IN RECORDS; WHEN UNLAWFUL; WHEN PERMITTED; PROCEEDING\nTO COMPEL DISCLOSURE; WHEN CERTAIN RECORDS MADE PUBLIC (\u00a7 32.1-271)\n\nA. To protect the integrity of vital records and to ensure the efficient and\nproper administration of the system of vital records, it is unlawful,\nnotwithstanding the provisions of §§ 2.2-3700 through 2.2-3714, for\nany person to permit inspection of or to disclose information contained in vital\nrecords or to copy or issue a copy of all or part of any such vital records\nexcept as authorized by this section or regulation of the Board or when so\nordered by a court of the Commonwealth.\n\nB. Data contained in vital records may be disclosed for valid and substantial\nresearch purposes in accordance with the regulations of the Board.\n\nC. Any person aggrieved by a decision of a county or city registrar may appeal\nto the State Registrar. If the State Registrar denies disclosure of information\nor inspection of or copying of vital records, such person may petition the court\nof the county or city in which he resides if he resides in the Commonwealth or\nin which the recorded event occurred or the Circuit Court of the City of\nRichmond, Division I, for an order compelling disclosure, inspection or copying\nof such vital record. The State Registrar or his authorized representative may\nappear and testify in such proceeding.\n\nD. When 100 years have elapsed after the date of birth, or 25 years have elapsed\nafter the date of death, marriage, divorce, or annulment the records of these\nevents in the custody of the State Registrar shall, unless precluded from\nrelease by statute or court order, or at law-enforcement request, become public\ninformation and be made available in accordance with regulations that shall\nprovide for the continued safekeeping of the records. All records that are\npublic information on July 1, 1983, shall continue to be public information.\nOriginal records in the custody of the State Registrar that become public\ninformation shall be turned over to the Library of Virginia for safekeeping and\nfor public access consistent with other state archival records, subject to the\nState Registrar and the Library of Virginia entering into a memorandum of\nunderstanding to arrange for continued prompt access by the State Registrar to\noriginal records for purposes of amendments to those records or other working\npurposes. The State Registrar’s office may retain copies thereof for its\nown administrative and disclosure purposes.\n\nE. The State Registrar or the city or county registrar shall disclose data about\nor issue a certified copy of a birth certificate of a child to the grandparent\nof the child upon the written request of the grandparent when the grandparent\nhas demonstrated to the State Registrar evidence of need, as prescribed by Board\nregulation, for the data or birth certificate.\n\nF. The State Registrar or the city or county registrar shall issue a certified\ncopy of a death certificate to the grandchild or great-grandchild of a decedent\nin accordance with procedures prescribed by the Board in regulation.\n\nG. The State Registrar or the city or county registrar shall disclose data about\nor issue a certified copy of a death certificate to a nonprofit organ, eye or\ntissue procurement organization that is a member of the Virginia Transplant\nCouncil for the purpose of determining the suitability of organs, eyes and\ntissues for donation, as prescribed by the Board in regulations. Such\nregulations shall ensure that the information disclosed includes the cause of\ndeath and any other medical information necessary to determine the suitability\nof the organs, eyes, and tissues for donation.\n\nH. The State Registrar shall seek to enter into a long-term contract with a\nprivate company experienced in maintaining genealogical research databases to\ncreate, maintain, and update such an online index at no direct cost to the\nCommonwealth, in exchange for allowing the private company to also provide such\nindex to its subscribers and customers. The online index shall be designed and\nconstructed to have the capability of allowing birth, marriage, divorce, and\ndeath entries on the index to be linked to a digital image of the underlying\noriginal birth, marriage, divorce, or death record once any such underlying\nrecord has become public information, and the index shall be designed to allow\nthe Library of Virginia to create and activate such links to digital images of\nthe original records. Any social security numbers appearing on original birth,\nmarriage, divorce, or death records shall be redacted from the digital images\nprovided to the public in the manner provided by law, which may include bulk\nredaction of social security fields from the images via automated methods.\n\t\t\tFollowing contract implementation, the State Registrar shall maintain a\npublicly available online vital records index or indexes, consisting at a\nminimum of name, date, and county or city of occurrence for births (naming the\nchild), marriages (naming the spouses), divorces (naming the parties to the\ndivorce), and deaths (naming the decedent), which vital records index\ninformation, except as otherwise precluded from release by statute, court order,\nor law-enforcement request, shall be public information from the time of its\nreceipt by the State Registrar and shall be accessible on the State\nRegistrar’s website and on or through the Library of Virginia website.\n\nHISTORY: Code 1950, \u00a7 32-353.26; 1960, c. 451; 1979, c. 711; 1983, c. 240;\n1984, c. 189; 1985, c. 313; 2005, c. 60; 2009, c. 505; 2011, c. 109; 2012, cc.\n16, 356; 2020, c. 900.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}