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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="4-206" title_number="4" title_name="Statistics and Records" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Vital Statistics and Records">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Secretary shall collect, index, and safeguard the marriage, divorce, and annulment records that clerks of court file as provided by law.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Secretary may change a marriage, divorce, or annulment record in the file of the Department only if a clerk of court sends, as provided by law, a certified report of the change.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If a discrepancy exists between the record of a clerk of court and the record of the Secretary as to a marriage, divorce, or annulment, the record of the clerk of court shall be considered correct.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A clerk of court may provide a certified copy of a record of any marriage, divorce, or annulment in accordance with usual custom and as provided by law.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Secretary may not provide a certified copy of any record of divorce or annulment.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
