Title 46, Welfare

A. Any person making a complaint, furnishing a report, information or records required or authorized by this chapter or otherwise participating in the program authorized by this chapter or in a judicial or administrative proceeding or investigation resulting from reports, informa…

A. A health professional, emergency medical technician, home health provider, hospital intern or resident, speech, physical or occupational therapist, long-term care provider, social worker, peace officer, medical examiner, guardian, conservator, fire protection personnel, develo…

A. A person who has been employed to provide care, who is a de facto guardian or de facto conservator or who has been appointed by a court to provide care to a vulnerable adult and who causes or allows the life of the adult to be endangered or that person's health to be injured o…

A. A person who is in a position of trust and confidence to a vulnerable adult shall use the vulnerable adult's assets solely for the benefit of the vulnerable adult and not for the benefit of the person who is in the position of trust and confidence to the vulnerable adult or th…

A. A person who files an action under this article shall serve notice and one copy of the pleading with the attorney general within thirty days after the action is filed in the superior court. The notice shall identify the action, the person against whom the civil complaint has b…

A. After completing its investigation, the department shall notify a person who is alleged to have abused, neglected or exploited a vulnerable adult that the department intends to enter a substantiated finding of abuse, neglect or exploitation in the registry and of that person's…

A. The department of economic security shall maintain a registry of substantiated reports of abuse, neglect and exploitation of vulnerable adults made pursuant to section 46-458. The department shall incorporate duplicate reports on the same incident in the original report and sh…

A. Unless otherwise provided by law, all personally identifying information concerning any person who is involved in an adult protective services program, including the reporting source's identity, other than a perpetrator against whom an allegation of abuse, neglect or exploitat…

A. Adult protective services may establish a multidisciplinary adult protection team consisting of employees of the adult protective services program, the county attorney or the county attorney's designees and representatives of law enforcement, behavioral health, domestic violen…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Broker-dealer" has the same meaning as dealer prescribed in section 44-1801. 2. "Eligible adult" means either of the following: (a) A person who is sixty-five years of age or older. (b) A person who is a vulnerable adult…

A. Notwithstanding section 46-454, if a qualified individual reasonably believes that financial exploitation of an eligible adult may have occurred, may have been attempted or is being attempted, the qualified individual may notify adult protective services and the corporation co…

A. A broker-dealer or investment adviser may delay a disbursement or transaction from an account of an eligible adult or an account on which an eligible adult is a beneficiary if both: 1. The broker-dealer, investment adviser or qualified individual reasonably believes, after ini…

A. A broker-dealer or investment adviser shall provide access to or copies of records that are relevant to the suspected or attempted financial exploitation of an eligible adult to adult protective services and law enforcement, either as part of a referral to adult protective ser…