Legal capacity of person with an intellectual disability or person with a developmental disability unimpaired unless adjudicated incapacitated.

NRS 435.340, under PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES.

NRS 435.340

NRS 435.340 Legal capacity of person with an intellectual disability or person with a developmental disability unimpaired unless adjudicated incapacitated. Neither voluntary admission nor judicial commitment nor any other procedure provided in this chapter may be construed as depriving a person with an intellectual disability or a person with a developmental disability of the person’s full civil and legal rights by any method other than a separate judicial proceeding resulting in a determination of incapacity wherein the civil and legal rights forfeited and the legal disabilities imposed are specifically stated. (Added to NRS by 1975, 1617; A 1999, 2602; 2013, 677; 2017, 2822)