Effective Date

04/08/1998

35.8 Birth and death certification; form and content.

(a) The signature of those persons executing, authenticating or filing such certificates may be constructed digitally for Certificates of Birth and Death prepared in the electronic format provided by the commissioner.

(b) A digital signature means the creation by the computer of an electronic identifier which the commissioner determines is:

(1) unique to the signer;

(2) capable of verification;

(3) under the signer's control; and

(4) linked to data in such a manner that if the data is changed, the signature is invalidated.