360B.475 - “Prosthetic device” construed.

360B.475  “Prosthetic device” construed.  “Prosthetic device” means a replacement, corrective or supportive device, including any repair and replacement parts therefor, worn on or in the body:

      1.  To replace artificially a missing portion of the body;

      2.  To prevent or correct a physical deformity or malfunction; or

      3.  To support a weak or deformed portion of the body,

Ê except that the term does not include any corrective eyeglasses, contact lenses or hearing aids.

      (Added to NRS by 2005, 1770)