Title 40

NRS 449.0301 Exemptions. The provisions of NRS 449.029 to 449.2428, inclusive, do not apply to: 1. Any facility conducted by and for the adherents of any church or religious denomination for the purpose of providing facilities for the care and treatment of the sick who depend sol…

NRS 449.03013 Facility for the dependent, medical facility or agency to provide personal care services in the home that employs community health workers not required to obtain additional license. 1. A person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter as a facility for the dependent…

NRS 449.03017 Person otherwise licensed under this chapter exempt from requirement to obtain license to operate employment agency that contracts with persons to provide certain nonmedical services. Repealed. (See chapter 158, Statutes of Nevada 2025, at page 1006.)

NRS 449.0302 Board to adopt standards, qualifications and other regulations. 1. The Board shall adopt: (a) Licensing standards for each class of medical facility or facility for the dependent covered by NRS 449.029 to 449.2428, inclusive, and for programs of hospice care. (b) Reg…

NRS 449.0303 Authority of Board to require licensing of other facilities. The Board may adopt regulations requiring the licensing of a facility other than those required to be licensed pursuant to NRS 449.029 to 449.2428, inclusive, if the: 1. Facility provides any type of medica…

NRS 449.0304 Board to adopt regulations authorizing employees of certain facilities to perform certain tasks. 1. The Board shall adopt regulations authorizing an employee of a residential facility for groups or a facility for the care of adults during the day, with the consent of…

NRS 449.0305 Businesses that provide referrals to residential facilities for groups and certain other group housing arrangements: License required; standards and regulations; provision of referrals; prohibited acts; civil penalties. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5…

NRS 449.0306 Money received from licensing of facilities to be deposited in State General Fund; expenditure of state or federal money by Division. 1. Money received from licensing medical facilities and facilities for the dependent must be forwarded to the State Treasurer for dep…

NRS 449.0307 Powers of Division. The Division may: 1. Upon receipt of an application for a license, conduct an investigation into the premises, facilities, qualifications of personnel, methods of operation, policies and purposes of any person proposing to engage in the operation …

NRS 449.03075 Duty of Division to compile and post information concerning licensing status and quality of certain facilities for the treatment of alcohol or other substance use disorders. The Division shall: 1. Compile and post on an Internet website maintained by the Division in…

NRS 449.0308 Authority of Division to collect actual cost of enforcing provisions from unlicensed medical facility, facility for the dependent or certain other facilities; authorized use of money collected; exceptions. 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the Division…

NRS 449.040 Application for license: Filing; contents. Any person, state or local government or agency thereof desiring a license under the provisions of NRS 449.029 to 449.2428, inclusive, must file with the Division an application on a form prescribed, prepared and furnished by…

NRS 449.050 Fees. 1. Each application for a license must be accompanied by such fee as may be determined by regulation of the Board. The Board may, by regulation, allow or require payment of a fee for a license in installments and may fix the amount of each payment and the date t…

NRS 449.065 Surety bond for initial license and renewal of license to operate facility for intermediate care, facility for skilled nursing, residential facility for groups, home for individual residential care and agency to provide nursing in home; exemption; exception. 1. Except…

NRS 449.067 Substitute for surety bond required for facility for intermediate care, facility for skilled nursing, residential facility for groups, home for individual residential care and agency to provide nursing in home. 1. As a substitute for the surety bond required pursuant …

NRS 449.068 Surety bond required for initial license and renewal of license to operate facility for refractive surgery. 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 449.069, each facility for refractive surgery shall, when applying for a license or renewing a license, file with the Adm…

NRS 449.069 Substitute for surety bond required for facility for refractive surgery. 1. As a substitute for the surety bond required pursuant to NRS 449.068, a facility for refractive surgery may deposit with any bank or trust company authorized to do business in this State, upon…

NRS 449.080 Issuance, validity and nontransferability of license; inspection of building proposed by applicant for community-based living arrangement services or rehabilitative residential mental health care. 1. If, after investigation, the Division finds that the: (a) Applicant …

NRS 449.085 Form and contents of license. Each license issued by the Division shall be in the form prescribed by the Division and shall contain: 1. The name of the person or persons authorized to operate such licensed facility; 2. The location of such licensed facility; and 3. Th…

NRS 449.087 Amendment of license required for addition of certain services; requirements for approval of amendment; revocation of approval; standards. 1. A licensee must obtain the approval of the Division to amend his or her license to operate a facility before the addition of a…

NRS 449.089 Expiration and renewal of license; fees. 1. Each license issued pursuant to NRS 449.029 to 449.2428, inclusive, expires 1 year after the date on which it was issued. Such a license may be renewed annually upon reapplication and payment of all fees required pursuant to…

NRS 449.091 Provisional license. 1. The Division may cancel the license of a medical facility, facility for the dependent or a facility which is required by the regulations adopted by the Board pursuant to NRS 449.0303 to be licensed and issue a provisional license, effective for…

NRS 449.0915 Endorsement of hospital as crisis stabilization center: Issuance; application; requirements; renewal. 1. The Division may issue an endorsement as a crisis stabilization center to the holder of a license to operate a hospital that meets the requirements of this sectio…

NRS 449.092 Applicant for issuance or renewal of license for home for individual residential care to attest to knowledge of and compliance with certain guidelines concerning safe and appropriate injection practices. The Division shall not issue or renew a license for a home for i…

NRS 449.0925 Regulations prescribing mandatory training for unlicensed caregivers; posting of list of providers of training on Internet website; duties of administrator or person in charge of facility. 1. The Board shall: (a) Adopt regulations prescribing mandatory training for u…

NRS 449.093 Training to recognize and prevent abuse of older persons: Persons required to receive; frequency; topics; costs; actions for failure to complete. 1. An applicant for a license to operate a facility for intermediate care, facility for skilled nursing, facility for the …

NRS 449.094 Continuing education requirements concerning care of persons with dementia for certain employees of facilities for skilled nursing, facilities for intermediate care and residential facilities for groups. 1. The Board shall establish minimum continuing education requir…

NRS 449.101 Discrimination prohibited; development of antidiscrimination policy; posting of nondiscrimination statement and certain other information; construction of section. 1. A medical facility, facility for the dependent or facility which is otherwise required by regulations…

NRS 449.102 Duties of licensed facility to protect privacy of patient or resident. A medical facility, facility for the dependent or facility which is otherwise required by regulations adopted by the Board pursuant to NRS 449.0303 to be licensed shall: 1. Maintain the confidentia…

NRS 449.103 Regulations requiring training relating specifically to cultural competency for certain agents or employees of facility; maintenance and distribution of list of approved courses and programs; request to provide unapproved course or program; reports. 1. Except as other…

NRS 449.104 Regulations to ensure patients or residents are identified in accordance with their gender identity or expression. The Board shall adopt regulations that require a medical facility, facility for the dependent or facility which is otherwise required by regulations adop…

NRS 449.111 Authorized activities of licensee; requirements governing provision of services. 1. The holder of a license to provide community-based living arrangement services may provide such services to any person with a primary diagnosis of a mental illness, including, without …

NRS 449.112 Establishment of individualized plan for recipient; reimbursement of Division for overpayment. 1. The Division shall establish, for each recipient of community-based living arrangement services to whom services are provided pursuant to a contract between the provider …

NRS 449.113 Grounds for denying renewal of license. The Division shall not renew a license to provide community-based living arrangement services if: 1. The holder of the license has refused or failed to reimburse any overpayment for community-based living arrangement services as…

NRS 449.1135 Registration; fee; renewal. 1. A senior living community referral agency shall register with the Division by submitting to the Division: (a) An application for registration, in the form prescribed by the Division, that includes, without limitation: (1) The physical a…

NRS 449.114 Disclosure and consent before referral: Contents; maintenance of record; provision of copy upon request. 1. Before referring a person who is aged or the representative of such a person to a senior living community, a senior living community referral agency shall: (a) …

NRS 449.1145 Prohibitions; duties; exception; methods of compensation. 1. A senior living community referral agency shall not: (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, refer a person who is aged or the representative of such a person to a senior living community: (1) In …

NRS 449.1147 Regulations. The Division shall adopt any regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of NRS 449.1135, 449.114 and 449.1145. (Added to NRS by 2025, 1220) Background Investigations

NRS 449.115 Definitions. As used in NRS 449.115 to 449.125, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 449.119 and 449.1195 have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. (Added to NRS by 2017, 1895)

NRS 449.119 “Facility, hospital, agency, program or home” defined. “Facility, hospital, agency, program or home” means an agency to provide nursing in the home, a community health worker pool, a facility for intermediate care, a facility for skilled nursing, a provider of communi…

NRS 449.1195 “Psychiatric residential treatment facility” defined. “Psychiatric residential treatment facility” means a facility, other than a hospital, that provides a range of psychiatric services to treat residents under the age of 21 years on an inpatient basis under the dire…

NRS 449.121 Exemption for facility for the treatment of alcohol or other substance use disorders; exception. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, the provisions of NRS 449.115 to 449.125, inclusive, and 449.174 do not apply to any facility for the treatment of alcohol…

NRS 449.122 Investigation of applicant for license to operate facility, hospital, agency, program or home. 1. Each applicant for a license to operate a facility, hospital, agency, program or home shall submit: (a) To the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History o…

NRS 449.123 Initial and periodic investigations of employee, employee of temporary employment service or independent contractor of facility, hospital, agency, program or home; penalty. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 2 and 3, within 10 days after hiring an employee…

NRS 449.1235 Temporary employment service prohibited from sending ineligible employee to facility, hospital, agency, program or home; temporary employment service to provide certain information regarding its employees. 1. A temporary employment service shall not send an employee …

NRS 449.124 Maintenance and availability of certain records regarding employee, employee of temporary employment service or independent contractor of facility, hospital, agency, program or home. 1. Each facility, hospital, agency, program or home shall maintain records of the inf…