201.450 - Unlawful act; penalty.

201.450  Unlawful act; penalty.

      1.  A person who commits a sexual penetration on the dead body of a human being is guilty of a category A felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for life with the possibility of parole, with eligibility for parole beginning when a minimum of 5 years has been served, and shall be further punished by a fine of not more than $20,000.

      2.  For the purposes of this section, “sexual penetration” means cunnilingus, fellatio or any intrusion, however slight, of any part of a person’s body or any object manipulated or inserted by a person into the genital or anal openings of the body of another, including, without limitation, sexual intercourse in what would be its ordinary meaning if practiced upon the living.

      (Added to NRS by 1983, 344; A 1991, 1010; 1995, 1204; 1997, 2503, 3190; 2005, 2878)