In connection with an investigation conducted pursuant to subsection 1 of NRS 253.0415, a public administrator or a person employed or contracted with pursuant to NRS 253.125, as applicable, may:
1. Require any spouse, parent, child or other kindred of the decedent to give any information and to execute any written requests or authorizations necessary to provide the public administrator or person with access to records, otherwise confidential, needed to evaluate the public administrator’s or person’s eligibility to serve.
2. Obtain information from the public records in any office of the State or any of its agencies or subdivisions upon request and without payment of any fee.
3. Investigate the assets and personal and family history of any decedent for whom he or she has been requested to serve as administrator, without hiring or being licensed as a private investigator pursuant to chapter 648 of NRS.
(Added to NRS by 1979, 991; A 2007, 2488; 2009, 2270; 2019, 1540)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 253 - Public Administration of Estates and Public Guardians
NRS 253.040 - Authority to administer estates; application for letters of administration; bond.
NRS 253.0407 - Authority and procedure for donation or destruction of certain property of estate.
NRS 253.042 - Investigatory powers.
NRS 253.0425 - Administration of or petition to set aside estate after investigation of gross value.
NRS 253.0435 - General powers; exception.
NRS 253.0447 - Payment for expenses incurred in performance of duties; exception.
NRS 253.060 - Applicability of rules and laws governing other administrators and executors.
NRS 253.070 - Officers and other persons to furnish information.
NRS 253.080 - Institution and maintenance of actions.
NRS 253.110 - Prohibition against interest in expenditures.
NRS 253.180 - Subordinates, consultants and assistants.
NRS 253.210 - Powers, duties, rights and responsibilities.
NRS 253.215 - Legal assistance.
NRS 253.230 - Allocation of costs incurred in appointment proceedings and administrative costs.
NRS 253.245 - Reports and budgets to and investigations by board of county commissioners.