Death Certificate Information

Records of Pasco County deaths from 1970 to the present are available for certification from this office.  For earlier death records (prior to 1970), please contact the State Office of Vital Statistics in Jacksonville.

Cause of death information becomes public record 50 years after the death, and is available to anyone (of legal age) completing an application and submitting with the required fee.  These records may be obtained from the State Office of Vital Statistics.

Any person of legal age (18) may obtain certified copies of a death record without the cause of death.

The cause of death information is not needed for:

Probate

Title companies

Vehicle title transfers

Taxes

 Credit card companies

If the death occurred in Florida prior to 1970, please go to the following link:

http://www.doh.state.fl.us/planning_eval/vital_statistics/deaths.htm

If the death occurred in another county in Florida, please go to the following link: http://www.doh.state.fl.us/chdsitelist.htm

If the death occurred in another state, please go to the following link to obtain address information to order the certificate:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/howto/w2w/w2welcom.htm

Payment Methods:

The fee for each certified copy of a Pasco County death record is $10.00.

FOR WALK-IN REQUESTS, fees are payable by cash, money order or cashier's check.

FOR MAIL-IN REQUESTS, fees are payable by money order or cashier's check ONLY. (Please do not send cash by mail).  Money orders/cashier's checks should be made payable to Pasco County Health Department.

Orders will be returned unprocessed if the requests are incomplete