GENERAL PROVISIONS

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.

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.

STATE ADMINISTRATION

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 and certain persons released from prison prohibited; remittance required for issuing copies.

LOCAL ADMINISTRATION

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.

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

REGISTRATION OF BIRTH

NRS 440.270. Immediate registration required.

NRS 440.280. Duty of registering birth: Persons required to file; time for filing; required information.

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.

NRS 440.287. Rescission of declaration for voluntary acknowledgment of paternity.

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 440.325. Certificate of birth: Issuance of new certificate upon establishment of paternity; availability of record on court order; availability of records to Division of Welfare and Supportive Services of Department of Health and Human Services.

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.

RECORDS REGARDING DEATH AND DISPOSITION OF REMAINS

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. Certificate of stillbirth.

NRS 440.400. Use of indefinite or unsatisfactory terms.

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.

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.

RECORDS OF MARRIAGE

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.

RECORDS OF DIVORCE AND ANNULMENT OF MARRIAGE

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

CERTIFICATES AS EVIDENCE; DELAYED OR ALTERED CERTIFICATES

NRS 440.610. Certificate as prima facie evidence.

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.

CERTIFIED COPIES OF RECORDS; FEES OF STATE AND LOCAL REGISTRARS

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.

UNLAWFUL ACTS; PENALTIES

NRS 440.720. Neglect or refusal of physician to execute medical certificate of death.

NRS 440.730. False certification of cause of death by physician.

NRS 440.735. Signature of 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.