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TITLE 40 PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
Chapter 440 Vital Statistics
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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 440.130 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 440.160 Preservation and indexing 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 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 and coroner 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.
- NRS 440.700 Fees for services and copies of certificates; certificates available without fee.
- 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.
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