Kansas Department of Health and Environment: Ordering Death Certificates

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Ordering Death Certificates

Service Alert - While our computer services which went down August 5 have been restored, we’re currently completing some testing that should allow our Office of Vital Statistics to be fully functional by Monday. Even though we were able to manually process some record requests during this three-week outage, we do have a backlog of about 8,000 requests that need to be processed. As we work to address the backlog, it may take up to four weeks to process requests for records. We are sorry for this inconvenience and thank you for your continued patience.

Lily The Office of Vital Statistics has six methods available for making a request for a death certificate: regular mail, priority mail, telephone, fax, internet, and walk-in customer service. Detailed instructions are available at each link below. Death certificates began being filed with the Office July 1, 1911.

For additional instructions, click on an Ordering Method.

ORDERING METHOD	DESCRIPTION	COST	PROCESSING TIME
WALK-IN	Go to Curtis State Office Bldg., 1000 SW Jackson, Ste. 120, Topeka, KS 66612. Open 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. weekdays.Payment made by cash, check, money order, or credit card.	$15 for 1^st copy, $15 for each additional copy of same record ordered at same time.	Around 15 - 20 minutes provided there is no difficulty in locating the record
INTERNET	Access www.vitalchek.com any time. Payment made by credit card.	$15 for 1^st copy, $15 for each additional copy of same record ordered at same time PLUS $11.00 expedited service fee.	Within 3 business days after receipt in our office
TELEPHONE	Call (785) 296-3253 between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Central Time weekdays.Payment made by credit card.	$15 for 1^st copy, $15 for each additional copy of same record ordered at same time PLUS $11.00 expedited service fee.	Within 3 business days
REGULAR MAIL	Send request by regular mail. Payment made by check or money order.	$15 for 1^st copy, $15 for each additional copy of same record ordered at same time.	Dependent upon current request volume - 5 to 10 business days
PRIORITY MAIL	Send by any type of priority mail service. Payment made by check or money order.	$15 for 1^st copy, $15 for each additional copy of same record ordered at same time.	Within 3 business days after receipt in our office