§ 23-02.1-13 — Birth registration

North Dakota § 23-02.1-13

• Jurisdiction: North Dakota
• Title 23: Health and Safety
• Ch. 23-02.1: Health Statistics Act

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1. A birth record for each live birth that occurs in this state must be filed with the state
registrar.
2. If a birth occurs in an institution, the person in charge of the institution or a designated
representative shall use the department of health and human services' electronic birth
registration system to report the birth, including all personal and medical facts, to the
state registrar within five days after the birth.
3. If a birth occurs outside an institution, the required forms prescribed by the department
of health and human services must be prepared and filed with the state registrar,
within thirty days of the birth by one of the following in the indicated order of priority:
a. The physician in attendance at or immediately after the birth, or in the absence of
such an individual;
b. Any other individual in attendance at or immediately after the birth, or in the
absence of such an individual; or
c. The father, the mother, or in the absence of the father and the inability of the
mother, the individual in charge of the premises where the birth occurred.
4. If a man and the mother are or have been married or have attempted to marry each
other in apparent compliance with law, although the attempted marriage is or could be
declared invalid, and the child is born during the marriage or attempted marriage, or
within three hundred days after the termination of cohabitation or after the marriage or
attempted marriage is terminated by death, annulment, declaration of invalidity, or
divorce, or after a decree of separation is entered by a court, the name of the man
must be entered on the birth record as the father of the child unless the presumption of
paternity has been rebutted by a court decree.
5. If the child is not born during the marriage of the mother, or within three hundred days
after a marriage is terminated by death, annulment, declaration of invalidity, or divorce,
or after a decree of separation is entered by a court, the name of the father may not be
entered on the birth record unless:
a. After the child's birth, the father and the child's natural mother have married, or
attempted to marry, each other by a marriage solemnized in apparent compliance
with law, although the attempted marriage is or could be declared invalid, and:
(1) He has acknowledged his paternity of the child in writing filed with the state
registrar; or
(2) He is obligated to support the child under a written voluntary promise or by
court order;
b. After the child's birth, the child's natural mother and the father voluntarily
acknowledge the child's paternity on a form prescribed by the department of
health and human services, signed by the child's natural mother and biological
father, and filed with the state registrar; or
c. A court or other entity of competent jurisdiction has adjudicated paternity.
6. If, in accordance with subsections 4 and 5, the name of the father of the child is not
entered on the birth record, the child's surname must be shown on the birth record as
the current legal surname of the mother at the time of birth unless an affidavit or an
acknowledgment of paternity signed by both parents is filed with the department of
health and human services.
7. A birth record must include the designation of the sex of the child which must be either
male or female. An entry of "not yet determined" may not be entered unless the sex
cannot be determined based on the child's nonambiguous sex organs, chromosomes,
and endogenous hormone profiles at birth.