Sec. 191.003. POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD  


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  • (a) The board shall:

    (1) adopt necessary rules for collecting, recording, transcribing, compiling, and preserving vital statistics;

    (2) supervise the bureau of vital statistics; and

    (3) appoint the director of the bureau of vital statistics.

    (b) In an emergency, the board may suspend any part of this title that hinders the uniform and efficient registration of vital events and may substitute emergency rules designed to expedite that registration under disaster conditions.

Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.