North Dakota § 23-02.1-31 Duties to furnish information relative to vital events

North Dakota Statutes

§ 23-02.1-31 — Duties to furnish information relative to vital events

North Dakota § 23-02.1-31

Title 23Health and Safety

Ch. 23-02.1Health Statistics Act

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N.D. Cent. Code § 23-02.1-31 (2026).

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Any person having knowledge of the facts shall furnish such information as the person may possess regarding any birth, death, fetal death, marriage, or divorce upon demand of the state registrar. 23-02.1-32. Penalties.

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a.Any person who willfully and knowingly makes any false statement in a report, record, or certificate required to be filed under this chapter, or in application for an amendment thereof, or who willfully and knowingly supplies false information intending that such information be used in the preparation of any such report, record, or certificate, or amendment thereof;

b.Any person who, without lawful authority and with the intent to deceive, makes, alters, or mutilates any report, record, or certificate required to be filed under this chapter or a certified copy of a r

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Any person having knowledge of the facts shall furnish such information as the person may
possess regarding any birth, death, fetal death, marriage, or divorce upon demand of the state
registrar.

23-02.1-32. Penalties.
1. a. Any person who willfully and knowingly makes any false statement in a report,
record, or certificate required to be filed under this chapter, or in application for an
amendment thereof, or who willfully and knowingly supplies false information
intending that such information be used in the preparation of any such report,
record, or certificate, or amendment thereof;
b. Any person who, without lawful authority and with the intent to deceive, makes,
alters, or mutilates any report, record, or certificate required to be filed under this
chapter or a certified copy of a report, record, or certificate;
c. Any person who willfully and knowingly uses or attempts to use or to furnish to
another for use, for any purpose of deception, any certificate, record, report, or
certified copy thereof so made, altered, amended, or mutilated;
d. Any person who, with the intention to deceive, willfully uses or attempts to use
any certificate of birth or certified copy of a record of birth knowing that such
certificate or certified copy was issued upon a record which is false in whole or in
part or which relates to the birth of another person;
e. Any person who willfully and knowingly furnishes a certificate of birth or certified
copy of a record of birth with the intention that it be used by a person other than
the person to whom the record of birth relates; or
f. Any person who knowingly prepares, delivers, or uses a fraudulent or forged copy
of a vital record;
is guilty of a class C felony.
2. a. Any person who refuses to provide information required by this chapter;
b. Any person who knowingly transports or accepts for transportation, interment, or
other final disposition of a dead body or fetus without an accompanying final
disposition-transit permit as provided in this chapter; or
c. Any person who willfully neglects or violates any of the provisions of this chapter
or refuses to perform any of the duties imposed upon the person by this chapter;
is guilty of an infraction.