                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

FEES FOR CERTIFIED COPIES, SEARCHES OF FILES, ETC.; DISPOSITION (§ 32.1-273)

A. The Board shall prescribe the fee, not to exceed $12, for a certified copy of
a vital record or for a search of the files or records when no copy is made and
may establish a reasonable fee schedule related to its cost for information or
other data provided for research, statistical or administrative purposes.
Whenever any veteran or his survivor requires a certified copy of a vital record
to obtain service-connected benefits, one copy of such record shall be provided
directly to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs upon their request, one copy
shall be provided to the Department of Veterans Services upon their request, and
one copy shall be provided to the veteran or his surviving spouse upon request.
Upon request of the surviving spouse of a veteran, the funeral director or
funeral service licensee providing funeral services for the veteran may obtain
one certified copy of the death certificate for service-connected benefits. No
charge shall be imposed upon a veteran or his survivor for a copy related to
obtaining service-connected benefits.

B. Fees collected under this section by the State Registrar shall be transmitted
to the Comptroller for deposit. Two dollars of each fee collected by the State
Registrar shall be deposited by the Comptroller into the Vital Statistics
Automation Fund established pursuant to &#xA7; 32.1-273.1 for so long as shall
be authorized. Ten dollars of each fee shall be credited to a special fund to be
appropriated by the General Assembly, as it deems necessary, for the purpose of
carrying out the provisions of this chapter. When the Vital Statistics
Automation System is completed, no further deposits into the fund shall be made
and all fees collected under this section not credited to the special fund
created by this subsection shall be deposited into the general fund of the state
treasury.

C. The Department of Motor Vehicles shall collect a fee of $12 for each
certified copy of a vital record that it issues and shall transmit all such fees
to the State Registrar on a monthly basis to ensure that the State Registrar
recovers all costs associated with the issuance of certified copies of vital
records at Department of Motor Vehicles facilities. In addition, for each
certified copy of a vital record that it issues, the Department of Motor
Vehicles shall collect a processing fee of $2 as provided in &#xA7; 46.2-205.2.

D. Fees collected under this section by county and city registrars shall be
deposited in the general fund of the county or city except that counties or
cities operating health departments pursuant to the provisions of &#xA7; 32.1-31
shall forward all such fees to the Department for deposit in the cooperative
local health services fund.

E. Fees assessed against local departments of social services for furnished
copies of vital records as needed to administer public assistance and social
services programs, as defined in &#xA7; 63.2-100, shall be payable on a
quarterly basis.

F. No fees shall be assessed against homeless youth, as described in subdivision
A 7 of &#xA7; 22.1-3, for a furnished copy of a vital record.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 32-353.28; 1950, p. 484; 1954, c. 429; 1956, c. 412;
1958, c. 296; 1960, c. 451; 1978, c. 308; 1979, c. 711; 1981, c. 527; 1983, c.
240; 1986, c. 194; 1988, c. 287; 1994, c. 373; 2002, c. 747; 2011, cc. 94, 148;
2013, c. 534; 2020, c. 360; 2025, cc. 181, 315.