 |
|
Health Care Agency
Birth and Death Registration
P.O. Box 234
Santa Ana, CA 92702-0234
(714) 480-6700. Open Monday thru Friday
from 7:30am to 4:15pm.
You must arrive by 4:00pm
to guarantee service. |
|
|
|
Death Certificate
Birth and Death Registration
provides certified copies of death certificates for events
occurring from 1994 to the present.
A certified copy of a death
certificate will be available for purchase after the original
certificate has been registered, usually within 10 days after death.
Certified
copies of death certificates for deaths that occurred in Orange
County may be purchased by visiting the Birth and Death
Registration office located at:
1200
North Main Street, Suite 100-A in Santa Ana.
Payment can
be made by cash, personal check, cashier's check or money order.
The fee for each certified copy of a death certificate is $12.00
each.
Obtaining a Death Certificate by Mail
Certified copies of death certificates may be purchased by mail if
the death occurred in Orange County. The fee for a death
certificate is $12.00 each. Please include a legal-sized,
stamped, self-addressed envelope with your order.
County of
Orange Health Care Agency
Birth and Death Registration
P.O. Box 234
Santa Ana, CA 92702-0234
For further
information, please call (714) 480-6700.
Certified copies of death
certificates may be purchased in person or by mail from the County of Orange Clerk-Recorder if the death occurred in
Orange County.
County of Orange Clerk-Recorder
provides certified copies of death certificates for events
dating back to 1889.
Contact the County of Orange Health
Care Agency Department of Birth and Death Registration by telephone
at (714)
480-6700 to request a free copy of Form
VS-24, Affidavit to Amend a Record.
If applying by mail, send your
request to:
County of Orange Health Care
Agency
Birth and Death Registration
Post Office Box 234
Santa Ana, CA 92702-0234
Please include the following
information with your request:
Name of the deceased
Date of
death
Information to be corrected
Instructions
for completing the form are on the reverse of the form.
There is no fee to correct errors
on death certificates if the correction is made prior to one
year of the date of death. All corrections made after one year
of the death are $20.00. This fee is included with the
application and mailed to the Office of State Registrar in
Sacramento.
Once you have completed the form,
mail it, along with any required fees, to:
Office of Vital Records – M.S.
5103
P. O. Box 997410
Sacramento, CA 95899-7410
Processing corrections to a death
certificate will take approximately three to four months. After
the correction has been made in Sacramento, you may purchase
certified copies at $12.00 each from Birth and Death
Registration in Santa Ana.
Please note that not all items on
a death certificate may be changed with this form.
Please contact Birth and Death
Registration if you have any further questions at (714)
480-6700.
|
|
|
