Title 38

NRS 432B.6072 “Facility” defined. “Facility” means a psychiatric hospital or facility which provides residential treatment for mental illness that has a unit in the hospital or facility capable of being locked to prevent a child with an emotional disturbance from leaving the hosp…

NRS 432B.6073 “Person professionally qualified in the field of psychiatric mental health” defined. “Person professionally qualified in the field of psychiatric mental health” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 433A.018. (Added to NRS by 2005, 1318)

NRS 432B.6074 “Treatment” defined. “Treatment” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 433.224. (Added to NRS by 2005, 1318)

NRS 432B.60745 Determination concerning whether child presents likelihood of serious harm to himself or herself or others. For the purposes of NRS 432B.607 to 432B.6085, inclusive, a determination concerning whether a child presents a substantial likelihood of serious harm to him…

NRS 432B.6075 Petition to continue admission: Filing; certificate or statement of alleged emotional disturbance; opposition. 1. If a child with an emotional disturbance who is in the custody of an agency which provides child welfare services is admitted to a facility under an eme…

NRS 432B.6076 Petition to continue admission: Consent; hearing; findings and order; transmission of record to Central Repository. 1. A child who is the subject of a petition submitted pursuant to NRS 432B.6075 may, after conferring with his or her attorney, submit to the court wr…

NRS 432B.6078 Second examination of child. 1. A child or a parent or legal guardian of the child who opposes a petition to continue an emergency admission pursuant to subsection 2 of NRS 432B.6075 may petition the court to authorize a second examination of any child examined purs…

NRS 432B.6079 Considerations for court in issuing or renewing order. In determining pursuant to NRS 432B.6076 and 432B.608 whether to issue or renew an order to continue the emergency admission of a child who is in the custody of an agency which provides child welfare services to…

NRS 432B.608 Expiration and renewal of admission; authority of facility to release child. 1. If the court issues an order to continue the emergency admission to a facility of a child who is in the custody of an agency which provides child welfare services pursuant to NRS 432B.607…

NRS 432B.6081 Plan for continued care or treatment of child upon discharge. A facility which provides care or treatment to a child who is in the custody of an agency which provides child welfare services and who is admitted to the facility under an emergency admission continued p…

NRS 432B.60811 Definitions. As used in NRS 432B.60811 to 432B.60819, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 432B.60812 and 432B.60813 have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. (Added to NRS by 2023, 2328)

NRS 432B.60812 “Facility” defined. “Facility” means a psychiatric hospital or facility which provides residential treatment for mental or behavioral health care to which a child with an emotional disturbance is or will be admitted to a locked unit that prevents the child from lea…

NRS 432B.60813 “Person professionally qualified in the field of psychiatric mental health” defined. “Person professionally qualified in the field of psychiatric mental health” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 433A.018 and includes the same professionals licensed in the state…

NRS 432B.60814 Petition: Filing; certificate or statement of alleged emotional disturbance; opposition. 1. An agency which provides child welfare services shall not place a child in the custody of the agency in a facility for the purpose of receiving nonemergency mental health tr…

NRS 432B.60815 Petition: Consent to treatment; hearing; findings and order; transmission of record to Central Repository. 1. A child who is the subject of a petition pursuant to NRS 432B.60814 may, after conferring with his or her attorney, submit to the court written consent, or…

NRS 432B.60816 Second examination of child. 1. A child or a parent or guardian of the child who opposes a petition for the admission of a child alleged to be a child with emotional disturbance to a facility for nonemergency mental health treatment pursuant to subsection 3 of NRS …

NRS 432B.60817 Considerations for court in issuing or renewing order. In determining pursuant to NRS 432B.60815 and 432B.60818 whether to issue or renew an order for the admission of a child who is in the custody of an agency which provides child welfare services to a facility fo…

NRS 432B.60818 Expiration and renewal of admission; authority of facility to release child. 1. If the court issues an order for the admission of a child who is in the custody of an agency which provides child welfare services to a facility for nonemergency mental health treatment…

NRS 432B.60819 Plan for continued care or treatment of child upon discharge. A facility which provides care or treatment to a child who is in the custody of an agency which provides child welfare services and who is admitted to the facility pursuant to NRS 432B.60815 shall develo…

NRS 432B.6082 Personal rights. In addition to the personal rights set forth in NRS 432B.607 to 432B.6085, inclusive, 433.456 to 433.543, inclusive, and 433.545 to 433.551, inclusive, and chapters 433A and 433B of NRS, and NRS 435.530 to 435.635, inclusive, a child who is in the c…

NRS 432B.60845 Requirements for certain facilities concerning training of employees and gender identity or expression of child placed in facility. A facility which provides care or treatment to a child who is in the custody of an agency which provides child welfare services and w…

NRS 432B.60847 Plan for the continued education of certain children admitted to psychiatric hospital; requirements for admission of certain children to facility which provides residential treatment for mental illness; regulations. 1. A psychiatric hospital to which a child who is…

NRS 432B.6085 Children’s rights; application of various provisions of chapters 433 and 435 of NRS and all of chapters 433A and 433B of NRS to children in custody of agency which provides child welfare services. 1. Nothing in this chapter purports to deprive any person of any lega…

NRS 432B.609 Screening of child in custody of agency which provides child welfare services to determine whether child is victim of commercial sexual exploitation; exception. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, each child in the custody of an agency which provides chi…

NRS 432B.610 Training of certain peace officers for detection and investigation of and response to cases of sexual abuse or sexual exploitation of children; regulations. 1. The Peace Officers’ Standards and Training Commission shall: (a) Require each category I peace officer to c…

NRS 432B.620 Certification of peace officers who regularly investigate cases of sexual abuse or sexual exploitation of children; regulations. 1. A peace officer assigned to investigate regularly cases of sexual abuse or sexual exploitation of children under the age of 18 years mu…

NRS 432B.6201 Definitions. As used in NRS 432B.6201 to 432B.626, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 432B.621 and 432B.6213 have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. (Added to NRS by 2019, 2434; A 2021, 1564)

NRS 432B.621 “Program” defined. “Program” means the Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program established and administered by the Department of Human Services pursuant to NRS 432B.622. (Added to NRS by 2011, 538; A 2019, 2435)

NRS 432B.6213 “Relative” defined. “Relative” includes, without limitation, a fictive kin, if the Federal Government approves a state plan for the administration of the Program which is adopted pursuant to subsection 2 of NRS 432B.622 and which provides for the provision of assist…

NRS 432B.622 Department of Human Services to establish and administer Program; adoption of state plan; agency which provides child welfare services authorized to enter into agreement to provide assistance to relative of child pursuant to Program. 1. The Department of Human Servic…

NRS 432B.623 Qualifications for assistance pursuant to Program; placement of sibling of child who is eligible for assistance. 1. As a condition to the provision of assistance pursuant to the Program: (a) A child must: (1) Have been removed from his or her home: (I) Pursuant to a …

NRS 432B.624 Required provisions in agreement for assistance entered into pursuant to Program; eligibility for federal assistance for adoption not affected by such agreement. 1. An agreement for assistance entered into pursuant to the Program must include, without limitation: (a)…

NRS 432B.625 Background checks required before entering into agreement with relative for assistance pursuant to Program. 1. An agency which provides child welfare services shall, before entering into an agreement for assistance pursuant to the Program, obtain from appropriate law…

NRS 432B.626 Agency which provides child welfare services to include certain information in case plan of child whose legal guardian receives assistance pursuant to Program. If a child is appointed a legal guardian who receives assistance pursuant to the Program, an agency which p…

NRS 432B.630 Delivery of newborn child to provider of emergency services. 1. A provider of emergency services shall take immediate possession of a child who is or appears to be not more than 30 days old: (a) When: (1) The child is voluntarily delivered to the provider by a parent…

NRS 432B.635 Immunity from liability for allowing child to participate in extracurricular, cultural or personal enrichment activities. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a person with whom a child has been placed pursuant to this chapter is immune from civil or crim…

NRS 432B.640 Assessment of child who may need counseling as result of battery that constitutes domestic violence; provision of evaluation or counseling. 1. Upon receiving a referral from a court pursuant to subsection 9 of NRS 200.485, an agency which provides child welfare servi…

NRS 432B.645 Individual development account: Establishment by relative or fictive kin for child placed in protective custody upon receipt of approval of agency which provides child welfare services; access to and use of deposited money. 1. Upon receiving approval pursuant to subs…

NRS 432B.650 Individual development account: Provision of instruction in financial literacy to child for whom account is established. 1. An agency which provides child welfare services shall, to the extent that money is provided by the State Treasurer pursuant to NRS 422A.492 for…

NRS 432C.010 Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 432C.020 to 432C.090, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. (Added to NRS by 2019, 1931)

NRS 432C.020 “Agency which provides child welfare services” defined. “Agency which provides child welfare services” means: 1. In a county whose population is less than 100,000, the local office of the Division of Child and Family Services of the Department of Human Services; or 2…

NRS 432C.030 “Child” defined. “Child” means a person under the age of 18 years. (Added to NRS by 2019, 1931)

NRS 432C.040 “Child welfare services” defined. “Child welfare services” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 432B.044. (Added to NRS by 2019, 1931)

NRS 432C.050 “Commercial sexual exploitation” defined. “Commercial sexual exploitation” means the sex trafficking of a child in violation of NRS 201.300 or the sexual abuse or sexual exploitation of a child for the financial benefit of any person or in exchange for anything of va…

NRS 432C.060 “Commercially sexually exploited child” defined. “Commercially sexually exploited child” means any child who is sex trafficked in violation of NRS 201.300, sexually abused or sexually exploited for the financial benefit of any person or in exchange for anything of va…

NRS 432C.070 “Information maintained by an agency which provides child welfare services” defined. “Information maintained by an agency which provides child welfare services” means data or information concerning reports and assessments made pursuant to this chapter, including, wit…