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ORDINANCE NO • 66____ 3
AN ORDINANCE CREATING THE DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS IN THE LITTLE
ROCK HEALTH DEPARTMENT; CREATING THE POSITION OF STATISTICIAN; TRANS-
FERRING RESPONSIBILITY FOR VITAL STATISTICS RECORDS FROM THE CITY
CLERK TO THE DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS; PROVIDING FOR THE KEEPING
OF VITAL STATISTICS; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS:
SECTION 1. The Division of Vital Statistics in the Little Rock
Health Department is hereby created.
SECTION 2. The position of Statistician in said Division of
Vital Statistics is hereby created. The person to fill said position
of Statistician shall be chosen by the Civil Service Commission in
the manner provided by law, and shall receive a salary of Seventy -
Five Dollars ($75.00) per month, out of the General Funds of the City
of Little Rock at the time and in the manner that salaries of other
City employees are paid. The person chosen to fill the position of
Statistician shall maintain all records of births and deaths of persons
within the corporate limits of the City of Little Rock and shall dis-
charge such other duties in connection with the Division of Vital
Statistics as the City Health Officer may require of him.
SECTION 3. The duty and responsibility of keeping records of
birthsand deaths is hereby transferred from the City Clerk to the
Division of Vital Statistics created in Section 1 of this Ordinance.
SECTION 4. A report of all births, still births and deaths shall
be made to the Division of Vital Statistics in the Health Department,
which report shall contain all of the information concerning vital
statistics required by the Rules and Regulations of the Arkansas State
Board of Health (1940 Edition).
SECTION 5. The Division of Vital Statistics in the Health Depart-
ment shall maintain records showing all births, still births and
deaths occurring within the City of Little Rock, Arkansas, which record
shall include all information required to be kept by the Rules and Regu-
lations of the State Board of Health mentioned in Section 4 of this
Ordinance.
SECTION 6. Any person, firm or corporation violating any provi-
sions of this Ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction, shall be fined in any sum not less than Fifty Dollars
($50.00) and not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00).
SECTION 79 The City Health Officer is authorized to issue burial
permits and to compile and tabulate data and other statistical infor-
mation concerning births, deaths and disease in the City of Little Rock.
SECTION 8. All fees which may be received by any City employee
by virtue of being appointed Registrar under the State Health Department
for Big Rock Township or other fees from the issuance of birth and /or
death certificates, burial permits and /or transfer permits (as provided
under this ordinance) shall be deposited with the City Collector to the
credit of the General Revenue Fund of the City; said settlements to be
made not later than the 10th day of the calendar month following receipt.
SECTION 99 All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed.
SECTION 10. Because the maintaining of Vital Statistics Records
is important to the welfare of the City of Little Rock; and because it
is also important that Vital Statistics in a permanent form be main-
tained at the earliest practical date, an emergency is hereby declared
to exist, and this Ordinance being necessary for the public peace,
health and safety, shall be in full force and effect from and after
its passage.
PASSED: August 28, 1944
APPROVED: (YaLt
Mayor
ATTEST:
C ty Clerk