Vital records.

Under existing law, a certified copy of a birth, death, marriage or military service record may only be supplied by the State Registrar, local registrar, or county recorder to an authorized person, as defined, who submits a written or faxed request accompanied by a notarized statement sworn under penalty of perjury that the applicant is an authorized person. This bill would additionally authorize the request and the notarized statement to be a digitized image, as defined. The bill would remove the application of these provisions to requests for certified copies of a military service record as requests for certified copies of those records are also subject to different provisions of existing law. Existing law authorizes proof of the execution of an instrument by certain persons and prescribes the form for that proof. Existing law authorizes the use of a specified form as a certificate for proof of execution of an instrument. This bill would instead require the specified form to be used as a certificate for proof of execution of an instrument, and would make several changes to the form. Existing law authorizes, if title to real property is affected by the death of a person, any person to record evidence of the death in the county in which the property is located by providing specified documents, which may include, among other things, a certified copy of a record of the death, as specified. This bill would provide that a certified copy of a record of death includes a certified copy or informational certified copy issued by the State Registrar, local registrar, or county recorder pursuant to specified provisions.