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NRS 440.435 - Death caused by sudden infant death syndrome: Ordinance may authorize postmortem examination; duties of coroner.

NV Rev Stat § 440.435 (2019) (N/A)
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1. The board of county commissioners of any county may provide by ordinance that in all cases where the cause or suspected cause of a death is sudden infant death syndrome, the coroner may take possession of the body, exhuming the body if necessary, and authorize the performance of a postmortem examination thereon. Such examination may include an analysis of the stomach, stomach contents, blood, organs, fluids or tissues of the body.

2. The findings resulting from the examination performed under subsection 1, including the opinions and conclusions of the examining physician, shall be reduced to writing and included in the coroner’s record of death. The coroner shall file a copy of such report with the State Registrar.

(Added to NRS by 1975, 1415)

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