North Dakota Code 16.1-02-06 – Reporting deceased individuals and changes of names – Changes to records in the central voter file
1. The department of health and human services shall provide for the regular reporting to the secretary of state the name, address, date of birth, and county of residence, if available, of each individual eighteen years of age or older who has died while maintaining residence in this state since the last report. Within thirty days after receiving a report, the secretary of state shall designate each individual included in the report as “deceased” in the central voter file.
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 16.1-02-06
- Individual: means a human being. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- written: include "typewriting" and "typewritten" and "printing" and "printed" except in the case of signatures and when the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See North Dakota Code 1-01-37
2. The department of health and human services shall provide for the regular reporting to the secretary of state the name, address, date of birth, and county of residence, if available, of each individual eighteen years of age or older whose name was changed by marriage since the last report.
3. After receiving notice of death of an individual who has died outside the county, the county auditor shall designate that individual as “deceased” in the central voter file.
Notice must be in the form of a printed obituary or a written statement signed by an individual having knowledge of the death of the individual.