Assembly Bill No. 550–Committee on Ways and Means

 

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AN ACT relating to vital statistics; increasing the amount of money that certain persons or governmental organizations must remit to the State Registrar for issuing a certified or official copy of a certificate of birth; requiring those persons or governmental organizations to remit a certain amount to the State Registrar for issuing a certified or official certificate of death; increasing the fees the State Registrar must charge and collect for a certified copy of a record of birth or death; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

    Section 1. NRS 440.175 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    440.175  1.  Upon request, the State Registrar may furnish

statistical data to any federal, state, local or other public or private

agency, upon such terms or conditions as may be prescribed by the

Board.

    2.  No person may prepare or issue any document which

purports to be an original, certified copy, certified abstract or

official copy of:

    (a) A certificate of birth, death or fetal death, except as

authorized in this chapter or by the Board.

    (b) A certificate of marriage, except a county recorder or a

person so required pursuant to NRS 122.120.

    (c) A decree of divorce or annulment of marriage, except a

county clerk or the judge of a court of record.

    3.  A person or governmental organization which issues

certified or official copies pursuant to paragraph (a) of subsection 2

shall remit to the State Registrar:

    (a) For each registration of a birth or death in its district, $2.

    (b) For each copy issued of a certificate of birth in its district,

[$5.] $7.

    (c) For each copy issued of a certificate of death in its district,

$1.

    Sec. 2.  NRS 440.700 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    440.700  1.  The State Registrar shall charge and collect the

following fees:

 

For searching the files for one name, if no copy is

made$8

For verifying a vital record8

For establishing and filing a record of paternity (other

than a hospital-based paternity), and providing a

certified copy of the new record$20

For a certified copy of a record of birth[11] 13

For a certified copy of a record of death[9] 10

For correcting a record on file with the State

Registrar and providing a certified copy of the

corrected record20

For replacing a record on file with the State Registrar

and providing a certified copy of the new record20

For filing a delayed certificate of birth and providing

a certified copy of the certificate20

For the services of a notary public, provided by the

State Registrar2

For an index of records of marriage provided on

microfiche to a person other than a county recorder of

a county of this state200

For an index of records of divorce provided on

microfiche to a person other than a county recorder of

a county in this state100

For compiling data files which require specific

changes in computer programming200

 

    2.  The fee collected for furnishing a copy of a certificate of

birth or death includes the sum of $3 for credit to the Children’s

Trust Account.

    3.  The fee collected for furnishing a copy of a certificate of

death includes the sum of $1 for credit to the Review of Death of

Children Account.

    4.  Upon the request of any parent or guardian, the State

Registrar shall supply, without the payment of a fee, a certificate

limited to a statement as to the date of birth of any child as disclosed

by the record of such birth when the certificate is necessary for

admission to school or for securing employment.

    5.  The United States Bureau of the Census may obtain, without

expense to the State, transcripts or certified copies of births and

deaths without payment of a fee.

 

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