Title 40

NRS 440.020 “Dead body” defined. As used in this chapter, “dead body” means a lifeless human body, or such severed parts of the human body or the bones thereof, from the state of which it reasonably may be concluded that death had recently occurred, and where the circumstances un…

NRS 440.025 “Human remains” and “remains” defined. As used in this chapter “human remains” or “remains” means the body of a deceased person, and includes the body in any state of decomposition and the cremated remains of a body. (Added to NRS by 1961, 255)

NRS 440.030 “Live birth” defined. As used in this chapter, “live birth” means a birth in which the child shows evidence of life after complete birth. A birth is complete when the child is entirely outside the person giving birth, even if the cord is uncut and the placenta still a…

NRS 440.035 “Midwife” defined. As used in this chapter, “midwife” means: 1. A person certified as: (a) A Certified Professional Midwife by the North American Registry of Midwives, or its successor organization; or (b) A Certified Nurse-Midwife by the American Midwifery Certificat…

NRS 440.040 “Person in charge of interment” defined. As used in this chapter, “person in charge of interment” means any person who places, or causes to be placed, a deceased stillborn child, or dead body, or, after cremation, the ashes thereof, in the earth, a grave, tomb, vault,…

NRS 440.050 “Physician” defined. As used in this chapter, “physician” is limited to a person authorized under the laws of this State to practice as such. [Part 25a:199:1911; added 1941, 381; 1931 NCL § 5259.01]—(NRS A 1977, 960)

NRS 440.060 “State Registrar” defined. As used in this chapter, “State Registrar” means the State Registrar of Vital Statistics. [Part 25a:199:1911; added 1941, 381; 1931 NCL § 5259.01]—(NRS A 1985, 290)

NRS 440.070 “Stillbirth” defined. As used in this chapter, “stillbirth” means a birth after at least 20 weeks of gestation, in which the child shows no evidence of life after complete birth. [Part 25a:199:1911; added 1941, 381; 1931 NCL § 5259.01]

NRS 440.080 “Vital statistics” defined. As used in this chapter, “vital statistics” means records of birth, legitimation of birth, death, fetal death, marriage, annulment of marriage, divorce and data incidental thereto. [Part 25a:199:1911; added 1941, 381; 1931 NCL § 5259.01]—(N…

NRS 440.085 Chapter inapplicable to remains of native Indian. The provisions of this chapter do not apply to the interment, removal or other disposition of the human remains of a native Indian pursuant to NRS 383.150 to 383.190, inclusive. (Added to NRS by 1989, 576)

NRS 440.090 Requisites of certificates. All certificates, either of birth, death or stillbirth, shall be written legibly, in unfading black ink, or typewritten, and no certificate shall be held to be complete and correct that does not supply all of the items of information called…

NRS 440.100 Persons required to furnish information. All physicians, registered nurses, midwives, informants or funeral directors, and all other persons having knowledge of the facts, shall furnish such information as they may possess regarding any birth or death upon demand of t…

NRS 440.110 State Registrar of Vital Statistics. The Administrator of the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Human Services is the State Registrar of Vital Statistics. [Part 5:199:1911; A 1939, 297; 1945, 130; 1943 NCL § 5239]—(NRS A 1983, 834; 2013, 30…

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 registration of births and deaths by adopting and enforcing regulations prescribing the method and form of making such r…

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, the State Registrar shall ensure the security and confidentiality of vital statistics …

NRS 440.130 Preparation and distribution of forms and blanks; charge for blank certificate. 1. The Board shall prepare, print and supply to all local health officers all blanks and forms used in registering, recording and preserving the returns, or in otherwise carrying out the p…

NRS 440.135 Form for reporting divorce or annulment of marriage: Preparation; contents; distribution. 1. The Board shall prescribe, and the State Registrar shall furnish in sufficient numbers to each county clerk for distribution, a form for the reporting of divorces and annulmen…

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 may be required to procure the uniform observance of this chapter and the maintenance of a perfect system of registratio…

NRS 440.150 Examination and supplementation of certificates. The State Registrar shall carefully examine the certificates received from the local health officers, and if they are incomplete or unsatisfactory the State Registrar shall require such further information to be furnish…

NRS 440.155 Registration of altered or amended certificates. 1. The State Registrar may approve an application for the registration of an altered or amended certificate if: (a) The applicant has submitted an application prescribed by the Board; (b) The State Registrar has receive…

NRS 440.160 Preservation, indexing and copying of certificates. The State Registrar shall: 1. Arrange and permanently preserve the certificates in a systematic manner. 2. Prepare and maintain a comprehensive and continuous index of all births and deaths registered. The index must…

NRS 440.165 Reproduction of original records and files. To preserve vital statistics, the State Registrar is authorized to prepare typewritten, photographic, electronic or other reproductions of original records and files in his or her office. Such reproductions, when verified an…

NRS 440.170 Records open to inspection; use of data restricted. 1. All certificates in the custody of the State Registrar are open to inspection subject to the provisions of this chapter. It is unlawful for any employee of the State to disclose data contained in vital statistics,…

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 copies; notification concerning …

NRS 440.190 County health officer as registrar. The county health officer shall act as a collector of vital statistics for his or her county. [Part 6:199:1911; A 1913, 126; 1919, 221; 1919 RL § 2957; NCL § 5240]

NRS 440.200 Furnishing blank certificates. The local health officer shall furnish blank forms of certificates to such persons as require them. [Part 19:199:1911; RL § 2970; NCL § 5253]

NRS 440.210 Certificates of birth and death: Examination by local health officer. Each local health officer shall carefully examine each certificate of birth or death when presented for record to see that it has been made out in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and …

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, the local health officer shall call attention to the defects in the return and withhold issuing the burial or removal …

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 birth and death, in two separate series, beginning with the number 1 for the first birth and the …

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 copy of each birth and death certificate registered by him or her in the format prescribed by the State Registrar. The copies s…

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, deputy county health officers shall file with the county heal…

NRS 440.260 Certificates of birth and death: Time for delivery to State Registrar. On the 10th day of each month the local health officer shall transmit to the State Registrar all original certificates registered by him or her during the preceding month. If no births or deaths oc…

NRS 440.270 Immediate registration required. All births that occur in this state shall be registered immediately in the registration districts in which they occur, pursuant to this chapter. [12:199:1911; RL § 2963; NCL § 5246]

NRS 440.280 Duty of registering birth: Persons required to file; time for filing; required information. 1. If a birth occurs in a hospital or the person giving birth and child are immediately transported to a hospital, the person in charge of the hospital or his or her designated…

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. 1. The Board shall: (a) Develop a declaration to be signed under penalty of perjury for …

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. 1. The Board shall: (a) Develop a declaration to be signed under penalty of perjury for the voluntary…

NRS 440.287 Rescission of declaration for voluntary acknowledgment of paternity or parentage. 1. If a person who has given birth or a person who has signed a declaration for the voluntary acknowledgment of paternity developed by the Board pursuant to NRS 440.283 or a declaration …

NRS 440.290 Certificate of birth: Form and contents. The form of the birth certificate to be used under this chapter shall include as a minimum the items required by the standard certificate of live birth as recommended by the United States Public Health Service, but no certifica…

NRS 440.300 Certificate of birth: Supplemental report of name required for unnamed child. 1. When any certificate of birth of a living child is presented without the statement of the given name, the local health officer, the local registrar or the State Registrar shall make out a…

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 birth is written in a language other than English, or the pare…

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, guardian or legal representative, and after receipt of a certified copy of an order of the court changing the name of su…

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 adoption or amendment of adoption filed in accordance with the prov…

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 with respect to whom a certificate of birth has been issued by this state indicating the illegitimacy of the p…

NRS 440.319 Certificate of birth: Effect of gestational agreement. 1. Whenever the State Registrar receives an order issued by a district court in this State pursuant to subsection 4 of NRS 126.720 validating a gestational agreement and declaring the intended parent or parents to…

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 Social Services of Department of Human Services. 1. In the case of the paternity or parentage …

NRS 440.327 Certificate of birth: Requests for certificates of certain missing children. The State Registrar shall not, without a court order to do so, issue to any person or governmental entity an original or copy of the certificate of birth of a child who is listed as missing i…