Title 40

NRS 446.923 Authority of health authority to require food processing establishment to have food tested in certain circumstances; requirements of such test; period for retention of records of tests; reporting of test results. Repealed. (See chapter 512, Statutes of Nevada 2025, at…

NRS 446.925 Food establishment outside jurisdiction of health authority. Repealed. (See chapter 512, Statutes of Nevada 2025, at page 3552.)

NRS 446.930 Review of plan for construction or remodeling of food establishment. Repealed. (See chapter 512, Statutes of Nevada 2025, at page 3552.)

NRS 446.935 Procedure if infection of food handler is suspected. Repealed. (See chapter 512, Statutes of Nevada 2025, at page 3552.)

NRS 446.940 Enforcement. Repealed. (See chapter 512, Statutes of Nevada 2025, at page 3552.)

NRS 446.941 Inapplicability of certain regulations to child care facilities with limited menus. Repealed. (See chapter 512, Statutes of Nevada 2025, at page 3552.)

NRS 446.942 Restriction on adoption of regulations concerning construction, maintenance, operation or safety of building, structure or other property. Repealed. (See chapter 512, Statutes of Nevada 2025, at page 3552.)

NRS 446.943 Prosecution by district attorney. Repealed. (See chapter 512, Statutes of Nevada 2025, at page 3552.)

NRS 446.945 Penalties. Repealed. (See chapter 512, Statutes of Nevada 2025, at page 3552.)

NRS 447.003 Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 447.007 and 447.010 have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. (Added to NRS by 1997, 1616; A 2020, 32nd Special Session, 105; 2023, 47)

NRS 447.007 “Health authority” defined. “Health authority” means: 1. The officers and agents of the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Human Services; or 2. The officers and agents of the local boards of health. (Added to NRS by 1997, 1616)

NRS 447.010 “Hotel” defined. “Hotel” means every building or structure kept as, used as, maintained as, or held out to the public to be, a place where sleeping or rooming accommodations are furnished to the transient public, whether with or without meals, including, without limit…

NRS 447.020 Cleanliness of bedding; worn out and unfit bedding. 1. All bedding, bedclothes or bed covering, including mattresses, quilts, blankets, sheets, pillows or comforters, used in any hotel in this state must be kept clean and free from all filth or dirt. 2. No bedding, be…

NRS 447.030 Extermination of vermin. Any room in any hotel in this state which is or shall be infested with vermin or bedbugs or similar things shall be thoroughly fumigated, disinfected and renovated until such vermin or bedbugs or other similar things are entirely exterminated.…

NRS 447.040 Cleanliness of rooms used for sleeping. Every room in any hotel in this state used for sleeping purposes must be free from any and every kind of dirt or filth of whatever nature, and the walls, floors, ceiling and doors of every such room shall be kept free from dirt.…

NRS 447.045 Hotel required to be kept in sanitary condition. 1. Toilet rooms and bathrooms, including toilets, bathing and lavatory facilities, in hotels shall be kept clean and sanitary. 2. All other rooms, corridors, stairways, elevators, fire escapes, garages within hotels, lo…

NRS 447.050 Certain areas of hotel prohibited from use as quarters for living or sleeping. It is unlawful for any person to use, or to permit another person to use, any of the following portions of a hotel for living or sleeping purposes: 1. Any kitchen, cellar, hallway, water cl…

NRS 447.060 Ventilation of rooms. Every room in any hotel used for sleeping purposes shall have devices, such as a window or transom, so constructed as to allow for the proper and a sufficient amount of ventilation in each such room, except that buildings more than one story in h…

NRS 447.070 Windows and outside doors to be equipped with screens. Windows and outside doors shall be screened against flies and mosquitoes. [5a:136:1915; added 1945, 384; 1943 NCL § 3341a]

NRS 447.080 Air space, floor area and ceiling height of rooms. No room for sleeping purposes shall have less than 500 cubic feet of air space for each occupant. The floor area of each sleeping room must be at least 80 square feet and at least 7 feet in width. All rooms must have …

NRS 447.090 Amount of bedding required; furnishing clean sheets and pillow slips; size of sheets. 1. Every bed kept or used in any hotel in this state for the accommodation of any person or guest must be provided with a sufficient supply of clean bedding. 2. Clean sheets and pill…

NRS 447.100 Fumigation of room after occupation by person having contagious or infectious disease. Whenever any room in any hotel shall have been occupied by any person having a contagious or infectious disease, the room shall be thoroughly fumigated under the direction of the he…

NRS 447.110 Facilities for bathing. 1. In every hotel in existence prior to October 1, 1945, at least one bathtub or shower shall be installed in a separate compartment on a public hallway or court for every 20, or fractional part of 20, guestrooms on the same floor as the hallwa…

NRS 447.120 Towels to be furnished. 1. Every hotel within this state having a public washstand or washbowl, where different persons gather to wash themselves, must keep a sufficient supply of clean, individual towels for the use of such persons within easy access of or to such pe…

NRS 447.130 Toilets required in hotels or other establishments for transient lodging: Number; facilities for washing hands. 1. In every hotel or any other type of transient lodging establishment without private toilets there shall be at least one toilet for each sex in a separate…

NRS 447.135 Entrance to corridor leading to toilet facility to be marked with sign that conforms to requirements of Americans with Disabilities Act and includes features for use by visually impaired persons; reporting of violations; duties of Attorney General; enforcement. 1. Eac…

NRS 447.140 Ventilation of room containing water closet, bathtub or shower. 1. In every hotel built after July 1, 1957, any room in which a water closet, bathtub or shower is installed must be ventilated to the outside air by means of a window of at least 3 square feet, unless sa…

NRS 447.145 Systems for heating and ventilating hotels or other establishments for transient lodging. 1. In every hotel and any other type of transient lodging establishment, the heating and ventilating systems must be constructed, installed and operated so as to reduce to a mini…

NRS 447.150 Exemption from requirement for number of water closets, bathtubs or showers in certain hotels. 1. The health authority may exempt any hotel built prior to October 1, 1945, from having the number of water closets, bathtubs or showers required by this chapter for the fo…

NRS 447.160 Disposal of sewage; disinfection of toilets. 1. Every hotel in this state must have proper facilities for sewage disposal and must be kept free from effluvia arising from any sewer, drain, toilet or other source within the control of the proprietor, owner, manager, ag…

NRS 447.170 Supply of water; plumbing. Every hotel shall be provided with a safe, sanitary water supply and there shall be no cross connection between the water system and the sewage collecting system. All plumbing fixtures shall be constructed so there will be no possibility of …

NRS 447.180 Disposal of garbage and rubbish. Every hotel shall have sanitary facilities for the storage and disposal of garbage, and no garbage or rubbish shall be permitted to accumulate and be or become a nuisance in a hotel or on the hotel premises. [9b:136:1915; added 1945, 3…

NRS 447.185 Regulation of construction or reconstruction of hotel or other establishment for transient lodging. The reconstruction of existing hotels, including all types of transient lodging establishments, and the construction of new hotels, including all types of transient lod…

NRS 447.190 Enforcement of general regulations by health authority; records. The health authority is charged with the enforcement of this chapter. The health authority shall keep a record of hotels inspected, and the record or any part thereof may, in the discretion of the health…

NRS 447.200 Access for inspection of hotel. The health authority shall have access at any time to any hotel in this State for the purpose of making inspections and carrying out the provisions of this chapter. [12:136:1915; A 1945, 384; 1943 NCL § 3348]—(NRS A 1969, 1023; 2020, 32…

NRS 447.210 Criminal penalty; each day of violation constitutes separate offense. 1. Every proprietor, owner, manager, lessee or other person in charge of any hotel in this state who fails to comply with the provisions of this chapter or any of the provisions of the regulations h…

NRS 449.001 Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 449.0015 to 449.0195, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. (Added to NRS by 1973, 1278; A 1975, 366, 897; 1977, 641; 1979, 160, …

NRS 449.0015 “Agency to provide nursing in the home” defined. 1. “Agency to provide nursing in the home” means any person or governmental organization which provides in the home, through its employees or by contractual arrangement with other persons, skilled nursing and assistanc…

NRS 449.0021 “Agency to provide personal care services in the home” defined. Repealed. (See chapter 158, Statutes of Nevada 2025, at page 1006.)

NRS 449.0025 “Board” defined. “Board” means the State Board of Health. (Added to NRS by 1985, 1735)

NRS 449.0026 “Community-based living arrangement services” defined. 1. “Community-based living arrangement services” means flexible, individualized services, including, without limitation, training and habilitation services, that are: (a) Provided in the home, for compensation, t…

NRS 449.0027 “Community health worker” defined. “Community health worker” means a natural person who: 1. Lives in or otherwise has a connection to the community in which he or she provides services. 2. Is trained by a provider of health care to provide certain services which do n…

NRS 449.0028 “Community health worker pool” defined. “Community health worker pool” means a person or agency which provides, for compensation and through its employees or by contract with community health workers, the services of community health workers to any natural person, me…

NRS 449.0031 “Community triage center” defined. “Community triage center” means a facility that provides on a 24-hour basis medical assessments of and short-term monitoring services for persons with mental illness and persons with alcohol or other substance use disorders in a man…

NRS 449.0032 “Division” defined. “Division” means the Health Care Purchasing and Compliance Division of the Nevada Health Authority. (Added to NRS by 2013, 3055; A 2025, 3713)