Nev. Admin. Code § 440.035 - Alteration or correction of certificate: Changes which require court order
The State Registrar shall not alter or correct any certificate assigned a state file number without an order from a court of competent jurisdiction if that proposed alteration:
1. Consists of the substitution of a
different name or of the name of a different person as surviving spouse of the
deceased or changes the name or marital status of the deceased on a death
certificate , unless verifiable evidence indicating that an error occurred is
submitted to the State Registrar;
2. Except as otherwise provided in paragraph
(c) of subsection 6 of
NRS
440.280, consists of the substitution of a
different name for :
(a) A child whose birth
is registered on the certificate and is proposed more than 1 year after the
date of the birth; or
(b) Either of
his or her parents ;
3.
Would indicate some other change in a legal relationship, but does not include
the change of a middle name to a middle initial, a middle initial to a middle
name or the informant on a death certificate ;
4. In combination with other alterations or
corrections, including, without limitation, alterations or corrections made
through previous requests, may change or hide the identity of the person to
whom the certificate pertains, as determined by the State Registrar;
or
5. Except as otherwise provided
in this subsection, would change information that has previously been altered
or corrected. This subsection does not apply to an alteration or change to the
cause of death proposed by the certifier of medical information on a
certificate of death or fetal death.
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