Nevada Revised Statutes Section 629.171 - Professions, Occupations and Businesses

Disclosure of genetic information of person without consent unlawful; exceptions. It is unlawful to disclose or to compel a person to disclose the identity of a person who was the subject of a genetic test or to disclose genetic information of that person in a manner that allows identification of the person, without first obtaining the informed consent of that person or his legal guardian pursuant to NRS 629.181, unless the information is disclosed:

1. To conduct a criminal investigation, an investigation concerning the death of a person or a criminal or juvenile proceeding;

2. To determine the parentage or identity of a person pursuant to NRS 56.020;

3. To determine the paternity of a person pursuant to NRS 126.121 or 425.384;

4. Pursuant to an order of a court of competent jurisdiction;

5. By a physician and is the genetic information of a deceased person that will assist in the medical diagnosis of persons related to the deceased person by blood;

6. To a federal, state, county or city law enforcement agency to establish the identity of a person or dead human body;

7. To determine the presence of certain preventable or inheritable preventable disorders in an infant pursuant to NRS 442.008 or a provision of federal law; or

8. To carry out the provisions of NRS 442.300 to 442.330, inclusive;

9. By an agency of criminal justice pursuant to NRS 179A.075.

Last modified: February 27, 2006