Section 500.10  Definitions

            "Act" means the Vital Records Act [410 ILCS 535].

            "Adoption Act" refers to the Act located at 750 ILCS 50.

            "Affiant" means the person signing the correction form.

            "Certificate" means an officially registered Certificate of Live Birth, Delayed Record of Birth, Medical Death, Medical Examiner's/Coroner's Death,  or Fetal Death (Stillbirth).

            "Certified court order", "court order", "appropriate court order", and "court determination" mean an order entered by a court of competent jurisidiction which order is certified by the clerk of the court, dated, and which order includes the full information required by the State Registrar to amend, correct, replace, impound, open, or create a vital record without reference to any other document.

            "Correction" means the administrative correction or amendment of a certificate to reflect the correct information at items where incorrect information has originally been entered; or the addition of correct information for items previously omitted from the certificate. "Correction" does not mean to enter on the certificate facts different from those which existed at the time of the event.

            "Correction form" means the standard correction form, "Affidavit and Certificate of Correction," prescribed by the State Registrar.

            "Court of competent jurisdiction" means any Circuit Court in Illinois, any United States District Court, any equivalent court in any state or United States territory, any tribal court of any of the Indian Nations located within the United States, and any appellate level court in the United States. "Court of competent jurisdiction" does not include any administrative body or tribunal without general trial jurisdiction.

            "Custodian" means the State Registrar of Vital Records, local registrars, or county clerks.

            "Delayed birth registration" means the registration of any birth that was not registered within 3 days after the event and includes:

            the registration of a birth that occurred more than 3 days, but less than one year prior to the application for registration;

            the registration of a birth that occurred more than one year, but less than 7 years prior to the application for registration; and

            the registration of a birth that occurred more than 7 years prior to the application for registration.

            "Final disposition" means the burial, cremation, or other disposition of a dead human body, fetus, or parts of a dead human body or fetus, including depositing in a vault or tomb, removal from the State, or use by a hospital or other institution for medical or scientific study in accordance with the Cadaver Act [410 ILCS 510] ( and Section 8 of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act [755 ILCS 50/8].

            "Funeral director or person acting as such" means a person licensed in the State of Illinois to practice funeral directing, or a person acting under the direction or supervision of an Illinois licensed funeral director as an employee or an associate of the funeral director.

            "Legal representative" refers to:

            an attorney acting on behalf of a person(s) named on a birth certificate;

            an agent authorized by power of attorney;

            a court-appointed personal representative;

            an agent with written, notarized authorization from a person(s) named on a birth certificate for the purpose of obtaining a certified copy for that person; or

            any other agent, approved by the State Registrar as a legal representative of the person to whom the birth certificate relates.

            "Major correction" includes, but is not limited to, any administrative correction made more than one year after the date of the occurrence, or an administrative correction made within one year of the date of the occurrence relating to these items (except as provided in Section 500.40(f)(3)(D) of this Part):

            significant changes in the surname of the registered person;

            on births, changes in the date or place of the occurrence; the parent(s) age(s), if changed more than 2 years;

            changes in the cause of death;

            the identity of the parent(s) on the birth certificate; changes in marital status; or

            the birthdate and/or age of the decedent on a death certificate; or, other like circumstances.

            Any other item corrected within one year of the occurrence is considered a "minor correction."

            "Minor correction" means any administrative correction made within one year of the occurrence not meeting the criteria of a major correction.

            "Personal services contract" means a contract between a unit of the State or local government body and an individual or a firm for the provision of services to the unit of the State or local government.

            "State Registrar" means the State Registrar of Vital Records.

(Source:  Amended at 24 Ill. Reg. 11882, effective July 26, 2000)