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NRS 259.010 - Coroners’ districts; inapplicability of certain provisions of chapter. - 1. Every county in this State constitutes a coroner’s district,...
NRS 259.020 - Sheriffs are ex officio coroners; exceptions. - Except in any county where a coroner is appointed pursuant...
NRS 259.025 - Account for support of office of county coroner. - 1. The board of county commissioners of each county may...
NRS 259.030 - Travel and subsistence. - The coroner is entitled to allowances for the expenses of...
NRS 259.040 - Deputies. - 1. All coroners may appoint deputies, who are authorized to...
NRS 259.045 - Coroner to notify next of kin of decedent of fact of death; authority to notify and provide coroner’s report to decedent’s parents, guardians, adult children or custodians. - 1. The coroner shall make a reasonable effort to notify...
NRS 259.047 - Test of decedent for communicable diseases; report of results. - 1. The coroner may cause a decedent under the jurisdiction...
NRS 259.049 - Program to promote mental health of certain persons; program to provide bereavement services to public. - A coroner may establish: 1. A program to promote the...
NRS 259.050 - Investigation into cause of death; postmortem examination; inquest. - 1. When a coroner or the coroner’s deputy is informed...
NRS 259.053 - Postmortem examination by forensic pathologist: Determination of cause of death; death certificate. - If a forensic pathologist performs a postmortem examination on a...
NRS 259.060 - Penalty for failure to attend as juror. - Every person summoned as a juror who fails to appear...
NRS 259.070 - Oath of juror. - When the jurors attend, they must be sworn by the...
NRS 259.080 - Fees of jurors; expenses of transportation of jury. - 1. Jurors of coroners’ juries (with not more than three...
NRS 259.090 - Inquest: Summoning and examination of witnesses; examination of decedent; adjournment. - 1. The justice of the peace may issue subpoenas for...
NRS 259.100 - Witness failing to attend punishable for contempt. - Any witness failing to obey the subpoena of the justice...
NRS 259.110 - Rendition of verdict: Certification; contents. - After inspecting the body and hearing the testimony, the jury...
NRS 259.120 - Testimony to be reduced to writing and filed with clerk of district court. - The testimony at such an inquest must be reduced to...
NRS 259.130 - Warrant to issue for accused. - If the jury finds that the dead person was killed...
NRS 259.140 - Service and return of warrant. - The warrant of the justice of the peace may be...
NRS 259.145 - Fee of justice of the peace for holding inquest. - 1. A justice of the peace is entitled, for each...
NRS 259.150 - Inventory of money and property of decedent; delivery to county treasurer; signs prohibiting entrance to residence of decedent; penalty for disregard of prohibition. - 1. The coroner shall inventory, in the presence of at...
NRS 259.160 - Duties of county treasurer pertaining to money and property of decedent. - 1. Upon payment of money into the county treasurer’s office...
NRS 259.170 - Payment to representatives of decedent. - If the money or the proceeds from the sale of...
NRS 259.180 - Burial of decedent; payment of expenses. - After the inquest, if no one takes charge of the...
NRS 259.200 - Fee of justice of the peace for holding inquest. - [Replaced in revision by NRS 259.145.]