484C.170 - Analysis of blood of deceased victim of accident involving motor vehicle to determine presence and concentration of alcohol.
484C.170 Analysis of blood of deceased victim of accident involving motor vehicle to determine presence and concentration of alcohol.
1. Any coroner, or other public official performing like duties, shall in all cases in which a death has occurred as a result of an accident involving a motor vehicle, whether the person killed is a driver, passenger or pedestrian, cause to be drawn from each decedent, within 8 hours of the accident, a blood sample to be analyzed for the presence and concentration of alcohol.
2. The findings of the examinations are a matter of public record and must be reported to the Department by the coroner or other public official within 30 days after the death.
3. Blood-alcohol analyses are acceptable only if made by laboratories licensed to perform this function.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 893; A 1985, 1952; 1999, 2460)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 484.394)