Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 440 - Vital Statistics

NRS 440.030 - "Live birth" defined. [Effective through December 31, 2021.] "Live birth" defined. [Effective January 1, 2022.] - As used in this chapter, "live birth" means a birth...

NRS 440.035 - "Midwife" defined. [Effective January 1, 2022.] - As used in this chapter, "midwife" means: 1. A person...

NRS 440.040 - "Person in charge of interment" defined. - As used in this chapter, "person in charge of interment"...

NRS 440.050 - "Physician" defined. - As used in this chapter, "physician" is limited to a...

NRS 440.060 - "State Registrar" defined. - As used in this chapter, "State Registrar" means the State...

NRS 440.070 - "Stillbirth" defined. - As used in this chapter, "stillbirth" means a birth after...

NRS 440.080 - "Vital statistics" defined. - As used in this chapter, "vital statistics" means records of...

NRS 440.085 - Chapter inapplicable to remains of native Indian. - The provisions of this chapter do not apply to the...

NRS 440.090 - Requisites of certificates. - All certificates, either of birth, death or stillbirth, shall be...

NRS 440.100 - Persons required to furnish information. - All physicians, registered nurses, midwives, informants or funeral directors, and...

NRS 440.110 - State Registrar of Vital Statistics. - The Administrator of the Division of Public and Behavioral Health...

NRS 440.120 - Regulations of State Board of Health concerning registration; enforcement by State Registrar. - 1. The Board shall provide an adequate system for the...

NRS 440.125 - State Registrar required to ensure security and confidentiality of vital statistics; release of certain vital statistics. - 1. In accordance with the regulations adopted by the Board,...

NRS 440.130 - Preparation and distribution of forms and blanks; charge for blank certificate. - 1. The Board shall prepare, print and supply to all...

NRS 440.135 - Form for reporting divorce or annulment of marriage: Preparation; contents; distribution. - 1. The Board shall prescribe, and the State Registrar shall...

NRS 440.140 - Preparation and issuance of instructions; use of other forms and blanks prohibited. - The Board shall prepare and issue such detailed instructions as...

NRS 440.150 - Examination and supplementation of certificates. - The State Registrar shall carefully examine the certificates received from...

NRS 440.155 - Registration of altered or amended certificates. - 1. The State Registrar may approve an application for the...

NRS 440.160 - Preservation, indexing and copying of certificates. - The State Registrar shall: 1. Arrange and permanently preserve the...

NRS 440.165 - Reproduction of original records and files. - To preserve vital statistics, the State Registrar is authorized to...

NRS 440.170 - Records open to inspection; use of data restricted. - 1. All certificates in the custody of the State Registrar...

NRS 440.175 - Furnishing statistical data; limitation on preparation or issuance of certain documents; charging fees to homeless persons, imprisoned persons and certain persons released from prison prohibited; remittance of fees required for issuing... - 1. Upon request, the State Registrar may furnish statistical data...

NRS 440.190 - County health officer as registrar. - The county health officer shall act as a collector of...

NRS 440.200 - Furnishing blank certificates. - The local health officer shall furnish blank forms of certificates...

NRS 440.210 - Certificates of birth and death: Examination by local health officer. - Each local health officer shall carefully examine each certificate of...

NRS 440.220 - Certificates of birth and death: Enforcement of requirements by local health officer. - 1. If any certificate of death is incomplete or unsatisfactory,...

NRS 440.230 - Certificates of birth and death: Numbering; attestation of date of filing by local health officer. - The local health officer shall number consecutively the certificates of...

NRS 440.240 - Certificates of birth and death: Preservation of copies by local health officer. - The local health officer shall make a complete and accurate...

NRS 440.250 - Certificates of birth and death: Filing by deputy county health officer; filing of list of deceased persons with public administrator or certain other persons. - 1. Not later than the fifth day of each month,...

NRS 440.260 - Certificates of birth and death: Time for delivery to State Registrar. - On the 10th day of each month the local health...

NRS 440.270 - Immediate registration required. - All births that occur in this state shall be registered...

NRS 440.280 - Duty of registering birth: Persons required to file; time for filing; required information. [Effective through December 31, 2021.] Duty of registering birth: Persons required to file; time for filing; required information. [Effective Ja... - 1. If a birth occurs in a hospital or the...

NRS 440.283 - Voluntary acknowledgment of paternity: Board to develop and distribute declarations to be signed; certain entities to provide services and notice concerning effect of declaration. [Effective through December 31, 2021.] Voluntary acknowl... - 1. The Board shall: (a) Develop a declaration to be...

NRS 440.285 - Voluntary acknowledgment of parentage: Board to develop and distribute declarations to be signed; certain entities to provide notice concerning effect of declaration. [Effective through December 31, 2021.] Voluntary acknowledgment of pa... - 1. The Board shall: (a) Develop a declaration to be...

NRS 440.287 - Rescission of declaration for voluntary acknowledgment of paternity or parentage. [Effective through December 31, 2021.] Rescission of declaration for voluntary acknowledgment of paternity or parentage. [Effective January 1, 2022.] - 1. If a mother or a person who has signed...

NRS 440.290 - Certificate of birth: Form and contents. - The form of the birth certificate to be used under...

NRS 440.300 - Certificate of birth: Supplemental report of name required for unnamed child. - 1. When any certificate of birth of a living child...

NRS 440.303 - Certificate of birth: Replacement of certificate written in foreign language; application for and preparation of new certificate written in English. - 1. A person whose birth certificate or other evidence of...

NRS 440.305 - Certificate of birth: State Registrar to change name on certificate upon request of certain persons. - Upon request of a person or his or her parent,...

NRS 440.310 - Certified reports and other documents pertaining to adoption: Duties of State Registrar; opening of sealed documents upon order of court. - 1. Whenever the State Registrar receives a certified report of...

NRS 440.315 - Certificate of birth: Removal of notation of illegitimacy; application for and issuance of new certificate. - Any person, or any parent or guardian, of a child...

NRS 440.319 - Certificate of birth: Effect of gestational agreement. - 1. Whenever the State Registrar receives an order issued by...

NRS 440.325 - Certificate of birth: Issuance of new certificate upon establishment of paternity or parentage; availability of record on court order; availability of records to Division of Welfare and Supportive Services of Department of Health and Hu... - 1. In the case of the paternity or parentage of...

NRS 440.327 - Certificate of birth: Requests for certificates of certain missing children. - The State Registrar shall not, without a court order to...

NRS 440.330 - Registration of foundling; contents of report. - 1. Whoever assumes the custody of a living child of...

NRS 440.340 - Registration of stillborn children. - 1. Stillborn children or those dead at birth shall be...

NRS 440.350 - Form and contents of certificate of death or stillbirth. - The certificate of death or of stillbirth that shall be...

NRS 440.360 - Authentication of personal and statistical information concerning certificate. - The personal and statistical particulars of the death or stillbirth...

NRS 440.370 - Signature required on statement of facts concerning disposition of body. - The statement of facts relating to the disposition of the...

NRS 440.380 - Medical certificate of death: Signature; contents. - 1. The medical certificate of death must be signed by...

NRS 440.390 - Presentation of certificate of stillbirth. - The certificate of stillbirth must be presented by the funeral...

NRS 440.400 - Effect of using indefinite or unsatisfactory terms on certificate. - Indefinite and unsatisfactory terms, indicating only symptoms of disease or...

NRS 440.410 - Manner of defining cause of death. - Causes of death, which may be the result of either...

NRS 440.415 - Pronouncement of death by registered nurse or physician assistant: Conditions; release of body; regulations. - 1. A physician who anticipates the death of a patient...

NRS 440.420 - Duties of funeral director, health officer, coroner and coroner’s deputy when death occurs without medical attendance. - 1. In case of any death occurring without medical attendance,...

NRS 440.430 - Duties of coroner. - 1. Any coroner whose duty it is to hold an...

NRS 440.433 - Notice to parents or guardian of autopsy upon body of minor; placement of internal organs. - 1. When an autopsy is performed upon the body of...

NRS 440.435 - Death caused by sudden infant death syndrome: Ordinance may authorize postmortem examination; duties of coroner. - 1. The board of county commissioners of any county may...

NRS 440.437 - Death caused by sudden infant death syndrome: Report by State Registrar. - The State Registrar shall annually publish a report specifying the...

NRS 440.440 - Duties of funeral director and sheriff upon death of unknown person. - 1. In any case of a death occurring to anyone...

NRS 440.450 - Prerequisites to disposal of body. - The funeral director or person acting as undertaker is responsible...

NRS 440.460 - Personal and statistical information. - The funeral director or person acting as undertaker shall obtain...

NRS 440.470 - Presentation of certificate of death. - The funeral director or person acting as undertaker shall present...

NRS 440.480 - Statement as to disposition of body. - The funeral director or person acting as undertaker shall state...

NRS 440.490 - Presentation of completed certificate of death to local registrar. - The funeral director or person acting as undertaker shall present...

NRS 440.495 - Notification of county clerk or registrar of voters. - Upon presentation of a completed certificate of death, the county...

NRS 440.500 - Burial and removal permits: Issuance; contents; death from infectious, contagious or communicable disease. - 1. Except as provided in subsections 2 and 3, if...

NRS 440.510 - Contents of burial permit. - If the interment or other disposition of the body is...

NRS 440.520 - Disposition of burial or removal permit. - The funeral director shall: 1. Deliver the burial permit to...

NRS 440.530 - Burial permit to accompany body. - The permit shall accompany the body to its destination, where,...

NRS 440.540 - Necessity for permit to inter more than 72 hours after death; removal of body to another registration district. - 1. Except as provided in subsection 2, the body of...

NRS 440.550 - Body transported from another state. - When a dead body is transported by a common carrier...

NRS 440.560 - Interment without burial permit prohibited. - No sexton or other person in charge of any premises...

NRS 440.570 - Validity of burial permit in another district. - A burial permit shall not be required from the local...

NRS 440.580 - Signature, endorsement and return of permit. - Each sexton or person in charge of any burial ground...

NRS 440.590 - Records of interments. - 1. Each sexton or person in charge of any burial...

NRS 440.595 - Filing with State Registrar; duties of county recorder, certain county clerks and State Registrar. - 1. A record of each marriage performed in this State...

NRS 440.600 - County clerk required to report number of marriage licenses issued. - On or before January 10 and July 10 of each...

NRS 440.605 - Reports to be filed by clerk of district court with State Registrar; fees. - 1. For each divorce and annulment of marriage granted by...

NRS 440.610 - Certificate as prima facie evidence. [Effective through December 31, 2021.] Certificate as prima facie evidence. [Effective January 1, 2022.] - Each certificate, as provided for in this chapter, filed within...

NRS 440.620 - Proof required for filing of delayed certificate. - The acceptance for filing of any certificate by the State...

NRS 440.630 - Procedure for delayed or altered certificates. - 1. Certificates accepted subsequent to 1 year after the time...

NRS 440.640 - Delayed or altered certificates as evidence. - The admissibility in evidence of a "delayed" or "altered" certificate...

NRS 440.650 - Issuance of certified copy of certificate; limitation. - 1. Upon request, the State Registrar shall furnish any applicant...

NRS 440.660 - Certified copy of record of birth or death is prima facie evidence. - Any copy of the record of a birth or death...

NRS 440.670 - Abstracted birth certificate: Issuance; contents; form; use as evidence. - 1. Upon request, the State Registrar shall supply to any...

NRS 440.690 - Receipt of fees: Accounting; deposit; refunding overpayments; use of certain proceeds. - 1. The State Registrar shall keep a true and correct...

NRS 440.700 - Fees for services and copies of certificates; certificates available without fee to certain persons. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the State...

NRS 440.710 - Salary or fee of deputy registrar; local health officer prohibited from charging fee for issuance of burial or removal permit. - 1. In counties where deputy registrars are appointed, the board...

NRS 440.715 - Fee for support of office of county coroner. - 1. If a board of county commissioners creates an account...

NRS 440.720 - Neglect or refusal of physician or advanced practice registered nurse to execute medical certificate of death. - Any physician or advanced practice registered nurse who was in...

NRS 440.730 - False certification of cause of death by physician or advanced practice registered nurse. - If any physician or advanced practice registered nurse knowingly makes...

NRS 440.735 - Affixing of signature to uncompleted certificate of death. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, it is...

NRS 440.740 - Failure or refusal to file certificate of birth with local health officer. - Any physician or midwife in attendance upon a case of...

NRS 440.750 - Interment, removal or other disposition of dead body without permit. - Any funeral director, sexton or other person in charge of...

NRS 440.760 - Alteration of certificate of birth or death. - Any person who shall willfully alter any certificate of birth...

NRS 440.765 - Use or possession of certificate of birth of another person. - 1. It is unlawful for any person to obtain or...

NRS 440.770 - Furnishing false information for certificate of birth or death. - Any person who furnishes false information to a physician, advanced...

NRS 440.773 - Sale for profit of copy or abstract of certificate of marriage. - Any person who sells or offers to sell for a...

NRS 440.775 - Injunction against sale for profit of copy of certificate of marriage. - 1. Any person who violates or proposes to violate the...

NRS 440.780 - Violation of chapter or regulations of Board. - Every person violating any of the provisions of this chapter...

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Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 440 - Vital Statistics

Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 440 - Vital Statistics