Nevada § 178A.240 - Failure of law enforcement agency to comply with requirements relating to sexual assault forensic evidence kit does not alter authority of law enforcement agency or forensic laboratory to take actions relating to such evidence
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§ 178A.240. Failure of law enforcement agency to comply with requirements relating to sexual assault forensic evidence kit does not alter authority of law enforcement agency or forensic laboratory to take actions relating to such evidence
The failure of a law enforcement agency to take possession of a sexual assault forensic
evidence kit pursuant to the Sexual Assault Survivors' Bill of Rights, or the failure
of the law enforcement agency to submit such evidence for genetic marker analysis
within the timeline prescribed pursuant to the Bill of Rights, does not alter: 1. The authority of a law enforcement agency to take possession of that evidence or
to submit that evidence to a forensic laboratory; and 2. The authority of the forensic laboratory to accept and analyze the evidence or
to upload an eligible DNA profile obtained from such evidence to CODIS or the State
DNA Database.
Source: official Nevada text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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