ARM 37.8.126. ACCESS TO RECORDS

(1) Anyone who submits a completed state or county application may obtain a certified copy of a death certificate. If a death certificate lists the cause of death as "pending autopsy" a certified copy may not be issued. (2) The following people may obtain a certified copy of a birth record: (a) a registrant, upon establishing their identity to the satisfaction of the certifying official; (b) a spouse, child or parent of a registrant to whom the requested record pertains, upon establishing their identity and relationship to the registrant to the satisfaction of the certifying official; (c) an individual having legal guardianship of the registrant, upon submitting a copy of a legal document showing establishment of the guardianship; (d) an individual who needs a certified copy to protect their personal or property rights, upon submitting a notarized or certified document that states that the applicant is required to obtain a certified copy in order to protect the applicant's personal or property rights; or (e) an authorized representative of the registrant, or an authorized representative of the spouse, child, parent or legal guardian of a registrant, upon establishing their identity to the satisfaction of the certifying official. (3) The following may not receive a copy, certified or uncertified, of a registrant's birth records: (a) a former spouse whose marriage to the registrant was terminated through divorce, annulment or invalidation and who has subsequently remarried; or (b) a natural parent of an adopted child when the parent does not have custody of that child. (4) Anyone who requests a birth certificate of an individual who was born 30 years or more earlier will be issued a non-certified copy of the certificate. (5) A clerk of the district court may issue a certified copy of a marriage or marital termination record to anyone listed in (2) after receiving a completed application for the record and establishing the identity of the requestor and the requestor's relationship to the registrants. (6) A certifying official may not file, issue or certify a copy of a vital record from another state or country. (7) Unless authorized by the department, a county certifying official may not provide a copy, certified or otherwise, of a birth certificate in the official's custody to another county's certifying official for filing.