USA Statutes : nevada
Title : Title 04 - WITNESSES AND EVIDENCE
Chapter : CHAPTER 56 - TESTS OF BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS


      1.  Whenever it is relevant in a civil or criminal action to
determine the parentage or identity of any person or corpse, the court,
by order, may direct any party to the action and the person involved in
the controversy to submit to one or more tests to obtain a biological
specimen to determine the genetic markers of the specimen, to be made by
qualified persons, under such restrictions and directions as the court
deems proper.

      2.  Whenever a test is ordered and made, the results of the test
may be received in evidence. The order for the tests also may direct that
the testimony of the experts and of the persons so examined may be taken
by deposition. The opinion of any expert concerning results of genetic
tests may be weighted in accordance with evidence, if available, of the
statistical probability of the alleged genetic relationship. The court
shall determine how and by whom the costs of the examination must be paid.

      [2:159:1951]—(NRS A 1979, 1279; 1989, 377; 2001, 3037 )