PA 07-133—SB 1391

Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee

Planning and Development Committee

AN ACT CONCERNING FEE INCREASES FOR CERTAIN VITAL RECORDS

SUMMARY: This act increases town clerks' fees (1) from $5 to $10 for each certified copy of a marriage, death, or long-form birth certificate and (2) from $1 to $2 for certifying copies of maps, surveys, and other documents filed with their offices. It also doubles the fee for a certified copy of a marriage or death certificate from the Department of Public Health's registrar of vital statistics from $5 to $10. The $5 fee for a certified copy of a birth registration, also known as the short form, remains unchanged. A birth registration contains only a person's name, sex, date and place of birth, and date of birth registration. A birth certificate also includes such information as parents' names, mother's maiden name, hospital location, and home addresses.

Lastly, the act allows blind people and people with mental retardation to get free lifetime sport fishing licenses, instead of requiring them to renew their licenses every year and provide proof of disability each time. It makes the same change to allow free lifetime hunting, sport fishing, or trapping licenses for (1) Connecticut residents who have lost, or permanently lost the use of, one or more limbs and (2) nonresidents with the those physical disabilities, if their home states have reciprocal laws.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 2007

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