Short title; purpose
Known as the Uniform Controlled Substances Act
The act spans §§ 453–453 (191 sections).
Applied in 28 court decisions — leading case Dawkins v. State (1988)
Most recently applied in FIGUEROA-BELTRAN VS. U.S. OF AMERICA (NRAP 5) (July 2020)
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1999; A 1987, 1653; 1991, 1648)
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
1. NRS 453.011 to 453.348, inclusive, may be cited as the Uniform Controlled Substances Act.
2. The Uniform Controlled Substances Act (1990) is substituted in a continuing way for the provisions of NRS 453.011 to 453.348, inclusive, except as those provisions are specifically amended.
Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.