440.595 - Filing with State Registrar; duties of county recorder, certain county clerks and State Registrar. - Nevada Statutes

440.595  Filing with State Registrar; duties of county recorder, certain county clerks and State Registrar.

      1.  A record of each marriage performed in this State must be filed with the State Registrar as provided in this section.

      2.  Each county recorder and each county clerk that is required to file certificates of marriage shall, on or before the 10th day of the following month, forward to the State Registrar the information contained on each certificate of marriage delivered to him or her during the preceding month. The information must be forwarded in a form approved by the Health Division of the Department of Health and Human Services.

      3.  The State Registrar shall enter in the records of the State Registrar the names of the parties, the date of the marriage and the county in which it was performed and recorded.

      (Added to NRS by 1967, 1108; A 1975, 1426; 1987, 779; 2007, 891)

      NRS 440.600  County clerk required to report number of marriage licenses issued.  On or before January 10 and July 10 of each year the county clerks of the several counties shall transmit to the State Registrar the number of marriage licenses issued by them during the preceding 6 months.

      [34:199:1911; added 1919, 221; 1919 RL p. 2894; NCL § 5268]—(NRS A 1963, 943)