The Department of Public Health has charge of the registration of marriages, dissolutions of marriages and declarations of invalidity of marriages in the State

The Department of Public Health has charge of the registration of marriages, dissolutions of marriages and declarations of invalidity of marriages in the State. The Department has the authority and duty to 1. Install and maintain a state-wide system of registering, indexing, and preserving records of marriage, dissolution of marriage and declaration of invalidity of marriage; 2. Prescribe and furnish forms for collecting, transcribing, compiling, and preserving the records and statistics of marriage, dissolution of marriage and declaration of invalidity of marriage; 3. Make and publish a statistical report of the marriages, dissolutions of marriages and declarations of invalidity of marriages in the State at least annually. Forms relating to dissolution of marriage shall, among other things, show the age of the individuals at the time of the marriage and at the time of the dissolution of marriage. Information required to be filed under this Act relates only to marriages, dissolutions of marriages or declarations of invalidity of marriages which occur on or after January 1, 1962. (Source: P.A. 81-230.)