Nevada Code § 440.435

Death caused by sudden infant death syndrome: Ordinance may authorize postmortem examination; duties of coroner
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1. The board of county commissioners of
any county may provide by ordinance that in all cases where the cause or
suspected cause of a death is sudden infant death syndrome, the coroner may
take possession of the body, exhuming the body if necessary, and authorize the
performance of a postmortem examination thereon. Such examination may include
an analysis of the stomach, stomach contents, blood, organs, fluids or tissues
of the body.
2. The findings resulting from the
examination performed under subsection 1, including the opinions and
conclusions of the examining physician, shall be reduced to writing and
included in the coroners record of death. The coroner shall file a copy of
such report with the State Registrar.

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