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Nevada Revised Statutes

Chapter 440

Nev. Rev. Stat. ch. 440

Vital Statistics

440.005“Advanced practice registered nurse” defined 440.010“Board” defined 440.020“Dead body” defined 440.025“Human remains” and “remains” defined 440.030“Live birth” defined 440.035“Midwife” defined 440.040“Person in charge of interment” defined 440.050“Physician” defined 440.060“State Registrar” defined 440.070“Stillbirth” defined 440.080“Vital statistics” defined 440.085Chapter inapplicable to remains of native Indian 440.090Requisites of certificates 440.100Persons required to furnish information 440.110State Registrar of Vital Statistics 440.120Regulations of State Board of Health concerning registration; enforcement by State Registrar 440.125State Registrar required to ensure security and confidentiality of vital statistics; release of certain vital statistics 440.130Preparation and distribution of forms and blanks; charge for blank certificate 440.135Form for reporting divorce or annulment of marriage: Preparation; contents; distribution 440.140Preparation and issuance of instructions; use of other forms and blanks prohibited 440.150Examination and supplementation of certificates 440.155Registration of altered or amended certificates 440.160Preservation, indexing and copying of certificates 440.165Reproduction of original records and files 440.170Records open to inspection; use of data restricted 440.175Furnishing 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 copies; notification concerning missing documents 440.190County health officer as registrar 440.200Furnishing blank certificates 440.210Certificates of birth and death: Examination by local health officer 440.220Certificates of birth and death: Enforcement of requirements by local health officer 440.230Certificates of birth and death: Numbering; attestation of date of filing by local health officer 440.240Certificates of birth and death: Preservation of copies by local health officer 440.250Certificates of birth and death: Filing by deputy county health officer; filing of list of deceased persons with public administrator or certain other persons 440.260Certificates of birth and death: Time for delivery to State Registrar 440.270Immediate registration required 440.280Duty of registering birth: Persons required to file; time for filing; required information 440.283Voluntary acknowledgment of paternity: Board to develop and distribute declarations to be signed; certain entities to provide services and notice concerning effect of declaration 440.285Voluntary acknowledgment of parentage: Board to develop and distribute declarations to be signed; certain entities to provide notice concerning effect of declaration 440.287Rescission of declaration for voluntary acknowledgment of paternity or parentage 440.290Certificate of birth: Form and contents 440.300Certificate of birth: Supplemental report of name required for unnamed child 440.303Certificate of birth: Replacement of certificate written in foreign language; application for and preparation of new certificate written in English 440.305Certificate of birth: State Registrar to change name on certificate upon request of certain persons 440.310Certified reports and other documents pertaining to adoption: Duties of State Registrar; opening of sealed documents upon order of court 440.315Certificate of birth: Removal of notation of illegitimacy; application for and issuance of new certificate 440.319Certificate of birth: Effect of gestational agreement 440.325Certificate of birth: Issuance of new certificate upon establishment of paternity or parentage; availability of record on court order; availability of records to Division of Social Services of Department of Human Services 440.327Certificate of birth: Requests for certificates of certain missing children 440.330Registration of foundling; contents of report 440.340Registration of stillborn children 440.350Form and contents of certificate of death or stillbirth 440.360Authentication of personal and statistical information concerning certificate 440.370Signature required on statement of facts concerning disposition of body 440.380Medical certificate of death: Signature; contents 440.390Presentation of certificate of stillbirth 440.400Effect of using indefinite or unsatisfactory terms on certificate 440.410Manner of defining cause of death 440.415Pronouncement of death by registered nurse or physician assistant: Conditions; release of body; regulations 440.420Duties of funeral director, health officer, coroner and coroner’s deputy when death occurs without medical attendance 440.430Duties of coroner 440.433Notice to parents or guardian of autopsy upon body of minor; placement of internal organs 440.435Death caused by sudden infant death syndrome: Ordinance may authorize postmortem examination; duties of coroner 440.437Death caused by sudden infant death syndrome: Report by State Registrar 440.440Duties of funeral director and sheriff upon death of unknown person 440.450Prerequisites to disposal of body 440.460Personal and statistical information 440.470Presentation of certificate of death 440.480Statement as to disposition of body 440.490Presentation of completed certificate of death to local registrar 440.495Notification of county clerk or registrar of voters 440.500Burial and removal permits: Issuance; contents; death from infectious, contagious or communicable disease 440.510Contents of burial permit 440.520Disposition of burial or removal permit 440.530Burial permit to accompany body 440.540Necessity for permit to inter more than 72 hours after death; removal of body to another registration district 440.550Body transported from another state 440.560Interment without burial permit prohibited 440.570Validity of burial permit in another district 440.580Signature, endorsement and return of permit 440.590Records of interments 440.595Filing with State Registrar; duties of county recorder, certain county clerks and State Registrar 440.600County clerk required to report number of marriage licenses issued 440.605Reports to be filed by clerk of district court with State Registrar; fees 440.610Certificate as prima facie evidence 440.620Proof required for filing of delayed certificate 440.630Procedure for delayed or altered certificates 440.640Delayed or altered certificates as evidence 440.650Issuance of certified copy of certificate; limitation; notification concerning documents missing from application 440.660Certified copy of record of birth or death is prima facie evidence 440.670Abstracted birth certificate: Issuance; contents; form; use as evidence 440.690Receipt of fees: Accounting; deposit; refunding overpayments; use of certain proceeds 440.700Fees for services and copies of certificates; certificates available without fee to certain persons 440.710Salary or fee of deputy registrar; local health officer prohibited from charging fee for issuance of burial or removal permit 440.715Fee for support of office of county coroner 440.720Neglect or refusal of physician or advanced practice registered nurse to execute medical certificate of death 440.730False certification of cause of death by physician or advanced practice registered nurse 440.735Affixing of signature to uncompleted certificate of death 440.740Failure or refusal to file certificate of birth with local health officer 440.750Interment, removal or other disposition of dead body without permit 440.760Alteration of certificate of birth or death 440.765Use or possession of certificate of birth of another person 440.770Furnishing false information for certificate of birth or death 440.773Sale for profit of copy or abstract of certificate of marriage 440.775Injunction against sale for profit of copy of certificate of marriage 440.780Violation of chapter or regulations of Board