Officer prohibited from performing body cavity search unless warrant contains specific authorization to perform body cavity search of person.

NRS

179.063

Officer prohibited from performing body cavity search unless warrant contains specific authorization to perform body cavity search of person.

1. An officer conducting a search of a person pursuant to a warrant shall not perform a body cavity search of the person unless the warrant contains specific authorization from the magistrate who issued the warrant to perform a body cavity search of the person. Such specific authorization must set forth the reasons for the necessity of a body cavity search of the person.

2. As used in this section:

(a) “Body cavity” means, with respect to:

(1) A male person, the rectum.

(2) A female person, the rectum or vagina.

(b) “Body cavity search” means the touching or probing of a body cavity of a person, regardless of whether or not there is actual penetration of that body cavity.

(Added to NRS by 2019, 115 )