460.010 - Procurement, processing, distribution or use of certain body parts or products constitutes service; no implied warranties; limited liability. - Nevada Statutes

460.010  Procurement, processing, distribution or use of certain body parts or products constitutes service; no implied warranties; limited liability.  The procurement, processing, distribution or use of any:

      1.  Whole human blood, plasma, blood product or blood derivative for the purpose of injection or transfusion; or

      2.  Tissue or organ for the purpose of transplantation,

Ê into the human body constitutes, as to the transmission of infectious disease, the rendition of a service and not a sale by every person participating therein, and no implied warranty of merchantability or fitness, nor any doctrine of liability other than negligence or willful misconduct, applies to the service.

      (Added to NRS by 1967, 1381; A 1971, 250; 1985, 1469; 1989, 60)