Section 440.035 - Alteration or correction of certificate: Changes which require court orderThe 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; or5. 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.Nev. Admin. Code § 440.035
Added to NAC by Bd. of Health, eff. 12-3-84; A by R066-16A, eff. 11/2/2016; A by R150-18A, eff. 1/30/2019