Section 253.042 - Investigatory powers In connection with an investigation conducted pursuant to subsection 1 of NRS 253.0415, a public administrator or a person employed or contracted with pursuant to NRS 253.125, as applicable, may:
1. Require any spouse, parent, child or other kindred of the decedent to give any information and to execute any written requests or authorizations necessary to provide the public administrator or person with access to records, otherwise confidential, needed to evaluate the public administrator's or person's eligibility to serve.2. Obtain information from the public records in any office of the State or any of its agencies or subdivisions upon request and without payment of any fee.3. Investigate the assets and personal and family history of any decedent for whom he or she has been requested to serve as administrator, without hiring or being licensed as a private investigator pursuant to chapter 648 of NRS.Added to NRS by 1979, 991; A 2007, 2488; 2009, 2270; 2019, 1540Amended by 2019, Ch. 270,§11, eff. 7/1/2019.Added to NRS by 1979, 991; A 2007, 2488; 2009, 2270