Title 39

NRS 433A.335 Filing and contents of petition or motion; sworn statements or declarations concerning recommendation for and provision of assisted outpatient treatment; service of petition or motion. 1. A proceeding for an order requiring any person in the State of Nevada to receiv…

NRS 433A.336 Hearing on petition or motion; notice. 1. Immediately after the clerk of the district court receives a petition filed pursuant to subsection 1 of NRS 433A.335 or NRS 433A.345, the clerk shall transmit the petition to the appropriate district judge, who shall set a ti…

NRS 433A.337 Written treatment plan. 1. Before the date of a hearing on a petition or motion for assisted outpatient treatment, the person who made the sworn statement or declaration pursuant to paragraph (a) of subsection 4 of NRS 433A.335, the personnel of the Division who made…

NRS 433A.338 Right to counsel; compensation of counsel; recess; continuation of representation by counsel during assisted outpatient treatment. 1. The person who is the subject of a petition filed or motion made pursuant to NRS 433A.335 or 433A.345 or any relative or friend on th…

NRS 433A.339 Duty of district attorney to appear in proceedings; presentation of case when district attorney does not appear. 1. The district attorney of a county in which a petition is filed or motion is made pursuant to NRS 433A.335 or 433A.345 or his or her deputy: (a) Must ap…

NRS 433A.341 Testimony. 1. In proceedings for assisted outpatient treatment, the court shall hear and consider all relevant testimony, including, without limitation: (a) The testimony of the person who made a sworn statement or declaration pursuant to paragraph (a) of subsection …

NRS 433A.342 Presence and testimony of subject of petition. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, the person who is the subject of a petition or motion for assisted outpatient treatment must be present at the proceedings on the petition or motion, as applicable, and ma…

NRS 433A.343 Findings and order; conditions for order to receive assisted outpatient treatment; alternative courses of treatment; transmittal of record to Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History and law enforcement agencies. 1. If the district court finds, after…

NRS 433A.344 Petition for evaluation of recipient of assisted outpatient treatment; conditions for granting of petition. 1. A person professionally qualified in the field of psychiatric mental health who is responsible for providing assisted outpatient treatment to a person order…

NRS 433A.345 Petition to renew order for assisted outpatient treatment; service; hearing. 1. Not later than 7 judicial days before the end of a period of assisted outpatient treatment ordered by a court pursuant to NRS 433A.343, the Administrator or his or her designee, the medic…

NRS 433A.350 Information to be furnished to consumer upon admission to facility or assisted outpatient treatment. 1. Upon admission to any public or private mental health facility or to assisted outpatient treatment, each consumer and the consumer’s spouse and legal guardian, if …

NRS 433A.360 Clinical records: Contents; confidentiality. 1. A clinical record for each consumer must be diligently maintained by any division facility, private institution, facility offering mental health services or person professionally qualified in the field of psychiatric me…

NRS 433A.370 Escape or absence without leave. 1. When a consumer committed by a court to a division facility on or before June 30, 1975, or a consumer who is judicially admitted on or after July 1, 1975, or a person who is involuntarily detained pursuant to NRS 433A.145 to 433A.3…

NRS 433A.380 Conditional release: No liability of State; restoration of rights; notice to court, district attorney and legal guardian. 1. Any person involuntarily admitted by a court may be conditionally released from a public or private mental health facility when, in the judgme…

NRS 433A.390 Release without further order of court at end of period specified; unconditional early release; notice to court and legal guardian. 1. When a consumer, involuntarily admitted to a mental health facility or required to receive assisted outpatient treatment by court or…

NRS 433A.400 Return of indigent to county of last residence or county where involuntarily admitted; delivery of indigent person to another state pursuant to Interstate Compact on Mental Health; notice. 1. An indigent resident of this state discharged as having been determined to …

NRS 433A.420 Transfer to hospital of Department of Veterans Affairs or other facility; duties of medical director and Commission upon objection of consumer. The medical director of a division facility may order the transfer to a hospital of the Department of Veterans Affairs or o…

NRS 433A.430 Transfer to facility in other state: Examination; contract; objection to transfer; fee for examination. 1. Whenever the Administrator determines that division facilities within the State are inadequate for the care of any person in a mental health crisis, the Adminis…

NRS 433A.440 Transfer of nonresident to state of residence. 1. If any person involuntarily court-admitted to any division facility pursuant to NRS 433A.310 is found by the court not to be a resident of this State and to be a resident of another state, the person may be transferre…

NRS 433A.450 Detention and treatment of offender in mental health crisis. When a psychiatrist and one other person professionally qualified in the field of psychiatric mental health determines that an offender confined in an institution of the Department of Corrections is a perso…

NRS 433A.460 Legal capacity of person admitted to facility or assisted outpatient treatment unimpaired unless adjudicated incapacitated. No person admitted to a public or private mental health facility or who receives assisted outpatient treatment pursuant to this chapter shall, …

NRS 433A.470 Guardian may be appointed for person adjudicated incapacitated. A person adjudicated by a court to be incapacitated who is admitted to a public or private mental health facility may have a guardian appointed either by the admitting court or by the district court of t…

NRS 433A.480 Evaluation of person adjudicated incapacitated; initiation of action for restoration to legal capacity. 1. The medical director of a division mental health facility shall have all persons adjudicated incapacitated of that facility automatically evaluated no less than…

NRS 433A.490 Restoration of legal capacity of person previously adjudicated incapacitated. Any person in the State of Nevada who, by reason of a judicial decree ordering the person’s hospitalization entered prior to July 1, 1975, is considered to be incapacitated and is denied th…

NRS 433A.580 Arrangements for payment of costs required. No person may be admitted or transferred to a private hospital or a division mental health facility, ordered to receive assisted outpatient treatment or transferred to a different person professionally qualified in the fiel…

NRS 433A.590 Schedule of fees. 1. Fees for the cost of treatment and services rendered through any division facility must be established pursuant to the fee schedule established under NRS 433.404 or 433B.250, as appropriate. 2. The maximum fee established by the schedule must app…

NRS 433A.600 Charges to nonindigent persons admitted to facility or assisted outpatient treatment and responsible relative; recovery by civil action; disposition of receipts. 1. A person who is admitted to a division facility or who receives assisted outpatient treatment operated…

NRS 433A.610 Liability of certain relatives and estate of person admitted to facility for payment of costs; recovery by legal action. 1. When a person is admitted to a division facility or hospital under one of the various forms of admission prescribed by law, the parent or legal…

NRS 433A.620 Limitation on payment from estate of person admitted to facility. Payment for the care, support, maintenance and other expenses of a person admitted to a division mental health facility shall not be exacted from such person’s estate if there is a likelihood of such p…

NRS 433A.630 Special agreement for support of consumer adjudicated incapacitated; advance payments. 1. The administrative officers of the respective division facilities may enter into special agreements secured by properly executed bonds with the relatives, guardians or friends o…

NRS 433A.640 Parties responsible for payment of charges after court-ordered admission; investigation of ability to pay. 1. Once a court has ordered the admission of a person to a division facility, the administrative officer must make an investigation, pursuant to the provisions …

NRS 433A.650 Benefits available from third party. Determination of ability to pay pursuant to NRS 433A.640 must include investigation of whether the consumer has benefits due and owing to the consumer for the cost of his or her treatment from third-party sources, such as Medicare…

NRS 433A.660 Collection of fees by legal action and other methods. 1. If the consumer, his or her responsible relative pursuant to NRS 433A.610, guardian or the estate neglects or refuses to pay the cost of treatment to the division facility or to the person professionally qualif…

NRS 433A.680 Payment of costs of medical services rendered by person not on staff of facility of Division. The expense of diagnostic, medical and surgical services furnished to a consumer admitted to a division facility by a person not on the staff of the facility, whether render…

NRS 433A.690 Claim against estate of deceased consumer. Claims by a division mental health facility against the estates of deceased consumers may be presented to the executor or Administrator in the manner required by law, and shall be paid as preferred claims equal to claims for…

NRS 433A.713 Submission of reports to Division; regulations requiring adoption of plan for discharge of admitted person. 1. Each public or private mental health facility and hospital in this State shall, in the manner and time prescribed by regulation of the State Board of Health…

NRS 433A.715 Court required to seal records of proceedings; petition to inspect records after sealing; request for release of records; admission to hospital, facility or assisted outpatient treatment deemed to have never occurred after sealing; disclosure of information to provid…

NRS 433A.740 Liability of public officer or employee. Any public officer or employee who transports or delivers or assists in transporting or delivering or detains or assists in detaining any person pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall not be rendered civilly or crimi…

NRS 433A.750 Unlawful acts; penalties. 1. A person who: (a) Without probable cause for believing a person is a person in a mental health crisis causes or conspires with or assists another to cause the involuntary court-ordered admission of the person under this chapter; or (b) Ca…