Section 41-57-9 - Certificates of registrar to be prima facie evidence

Any copy of the records of birth, sickness or death, when properly certified to by the state registrar of vital statistics, to be a true copy thereof, shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and places of the facts therein stated. A facsimile signature of the registrar shall be sufficient for certification when the certificate shall have impressed thereon the seal of the Mississippi Department of Public Health.Codes, Hemingway's 1917, § 4872; 1930, § 4908; 1942, § 7064; Laws, 1912, ch. 149; Laws, 1960, ch. 352.