Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 440 - Vital Statistics
NRS 440.025 - "Human remains" and "remains" defined.

Nevada Revised Statutes

Chapter 440 - Vital Statistics

NRS 440.005 - "Advanced practice registered nurse" defined.

NRS 440.010 - "Board" defined.

NRS 440.020 - "Dead body" defined.

NRS 440.025 - "Human remains" and "remains" defined.

NRS 440.030 - "Live birth" defined. [Effective through December 31, 2021.] "Live birth" defined. [Effective January 1, 2022.]

NRS 440.035 - "Midwife" defined. [Effective January 1, 2022.]

NRS 440.040 - "Person in charge of interment" defined.

NRS 440.050 - "Physician" defined.

NRS 440.060 - "State Registrar" defined.

NRS 440.070 - "Stillbirth" defined.

NRS 440.080 - "Vital statistics" defined.

NRS 440.085 - Chapter inapplicable to remains of native Indian.

NRS 440.090 - Requisites of certificates.

NRS 440.100 - Persons required to furnish information.

NRS 440.110 - State Registrar of Vital Statistics.

NRS 440.120 - Regulations of State Board of Health concerning registration; enforcement by State Registrar.

NRS 440.125 - State Registrar required to ensure security and confidentiality of vital statistics; release of certain vital statistics.

NRS 440.130 - Preparation and distribution of forms and blanks; charge for blank certificate.

NRS 440.135 - Form for reporting divorce or annulment of marriage: Preparation; contents; distribution.

NRS 440.140 - Preparation and issuance of instructions; use of other forms and blanks prohibited.

NRS 440.150 - Examination and supplementation of certificates.

NRS 440.155 - Registration of altered or amended certificates.

NRS 440.160 - Preservation, indexing and copying of certificates.

NRS 440.165 - Reproduction of original records and files.

NRS 440.170 - Records open to inspection; use of data restricted.

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...

NRS 440.190 - County health officer as registrar.

NRS 440.200 - Furnishing blank certificates.

NRS 440.210 - Certificates of birth and death: Examination by local health officer.

NRS 440.220 - Certificates of birth and death: Enforcement of requirements by local health officer.

NRS 440.230 - Certificates of birth and death: Numbering; attestation of date of filing by local health officer.

NRS 440.240 - Certificates of birth and death: Preservation of copies by local health officer.

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.

NRS 440.260 - Certificates of birth and death: Time for delivery to State Registrar.

NRS 440.270 - Immediate registration required.

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...

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...

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...

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.]

NRS 440.290 - Certificate of birth: Form and contents.

NRS 440.300 - Certificate of birth: Supplemental report of name required for unnamed child.

NRS 440.303 - Certificate of birth: Replacement of certificate written in foreign language; application for and preparation of new certificate written in English.

NRS 440.305 - Certificate of birth: State Registrar to change name on certificate upon request of certain persons.

NRS 440.310 - Certified reports and other documents pertaining to adoption: Duties of State Registrar; opening of sealed documents upon order of court.

NRS 440.315 - Certificate of birth: Removal of notation of illegitimacy; application for and issuance of new certificate.

NRS 440.319 - Certificate of birth: Effect of gestational agreement.

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...

NRS 440.327 - Certificate of birth: Requests for certificates of certain missing children.

NRS 440.330 - Registration of foundling; contents of report.

NRS 440.340 - Registration of stillborn children.

NRS 440.350 - Form and contents of certificate of death or stillbirth.

NRS 440.360 - Authentication of personal and statistical information concerning certificate.

NRS 440.370 - Signature required on statement of facts concerning disposition of body.

NRS 440.380 - Medical certificate of death: Signature; contents.

NRS 440.390 - Presentation of certificate of stillbirth.

NRS 440.400 - Effect of using indefinite or unsatisfactory terms on certificate.

NRS 440.410 - Manner of defining cause of death.

NRS 440.415 - Pronouncement of death by registered nurse or physician assistant: Conditions; release of body; regulations.

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

NRS 440.430 - Duties of coroner.

NRS 440.433 - Notice to parents or guardian of autopsy upon body of minor; placement of internal organs.

NRS 440.435 - Death caused by sudden infant death syndrome: Ordinance may authorize postmortem examination; duties of coroner.

NRS 440.437 - Death caused by sudden infant death syndrome: Report by State Registrar.

NRS 440.440 - Duties of funeral director and sheriff upon death of unknown person.

NRS 440.450 - Prerequisites to disposal of body.

NRS 440.460 - Personal and statistical information.

NRS 440.470 - Presentation of certificate of death.

NRS 440.480 - Statement as to disposition of body.

NRS 440.490 - Presentation of completed certificate of death to local registrar.

NRS 440.495 - Notification of county clerk or registrar of voters.

NRS 440.500 - Burial and removal permits: Issuance; contents; death from infectious, contagious or communicable disease.

NRS 440.510 - Contents of burial permit.

NRS 440.520 - Disposition of burial or removal permit.

NRS 440.530 - Burial permit to accompany body.

NRS 440.540 - Necessity for permit to inter more than 72 hours after death; removal of body to another registration district.

NRS 440.550 - Body transported from another state.

NRS 440.560 - Interment without burial permit prohibited.

NRS 440.570 - Validity of burial permit in another district.

NRS 440.580 - Signature, endorsement and return of permit.

NRS 440.590 - Records of interments.

NRS 440.595 - Filing with State Registrar; duties of county recorder, certain county clerks and State Registrar.

NRS 440.600 - County clerk required to report number of marriage licenses issued.

NRS 440.605 - Reports to be filed by clerk of district court with State Registrar; fees.

NRS 440.610 - Certificate as prima facie evidence. [Effective through December 31, 2021.] Certificate as prima facie evidence. [Effective January 1, 2022.]

NRS 440.620 - Proof required for filing of delayed certificate.

NRS 440.630 - Procedure for delayed or altered certificates.

NRS 440.640 - Delayed or altered certificates as evidence.

NRS 440.650 - Issuance of certified copy of certificate; limitation.

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

NRS 440.670 - Abstracted birth certificate: Issuance; contents; form; use as evidence.

NRS 440.690 - Receipt of fees: Accounting; deposit; refunding overpayments; use of certain proceeds.

NRS 440.700 - Fees for services and copies of certificates; certificates available without fee to certain persons.

NRS 440.710 - Salary or fee of deputy registrar; local health officer prohibited from charging fee for issuance of burial or removal permit.

NRS 440.715 - Fee for support of office of county coroner.

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

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

NRS 440.735 - Affixing of signature to uncompleted certificate of death.

NRS 440.740 - Failure or refusal to file certificate of birth with local health officer.

NRS 440.750 - Interment, removal or other disposition of dead body without permit.

NRS 440.760 - Alteration of certificate of birth or death.

NRS 440.765 - Use or possession of certificate of birth of another person.

NRS 440.770 - Furnishing false information for certificate of birth or death.

NRS 440.773 - Sale for profit of copy or abstract of certificate of marriage.

NRS 440.775 - Injunction against sale for profit of copy of certificate of marriage.

NRS 440.780 - Violation of chapter or regulations of Board.