Nevada Code § 167.020

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In
this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. Adult means a person who has attained
the age of 18 years.
2. Benefit plan means an employers plan
for the benefit of an employee or partner.
3. Broker means a person lawfully
engaged in the business of effecting transactions in securities or commodities
for his or her own account or for the account of others.
4. Conservator means a person appointed
or qualified by a court to act as general, limited or temporary guardian of a
minors property or any other person legally authorized to perform
substantially the same functions.
5. Court means the district court.
6. Custodial property means:
(a) Any interest in property transferred to a
custodian in a manner prescribed in this chapter; and
(b) The income from and the proceeds of that
interest in property.
7. Custodian means a person so
designated in a manner prescribed in this chapter. The term includes a
successor or substitute custodian.
8. Financial institution means a bank,
trust company, savings institution or credit union chartered and supervised
under federal law or the laws of a state.
9. Legal representative means a personal
representative or conservator.
10. Member of a minors family means a
minors parent, stepparent, spouse, grandparent, brother, sister, uncle or
aunt, whether of the whole blood or the half blood, or by or through legal
adoption.
11. Minor means a person who has not
attained the age of 18 years.
12. Person means any natural person,
corporation, organization or other legal entity.
13. Personal representative means an
executor, administrator, successor personal representative or special
administrator of a decedents estate or any other person legally authorized to
perform substantially the same functions.
14. State means any state of the United
States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or any
territory or possession subject to the legislative authority of the United
States.
15. Transfer means a transaction which
creates custodial property in a manner prescribed in this chapter.
16. Transferor means a person who makes
a transfer in a manner prescribed in this chapter.
17. Trust company means a financial
institution, corporation or other legal entity authorized to exercise general
trust powers.

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