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NRS 433A.010 - Applicability of chapter. - The provisions of this chapter apply to all mental health...
NRS 433A.011 - Definitions. - As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires,...
NRS 433A.012 - "Administrative officer" defined. - "Administrative officer" means a person with overall executive and administrative...
NRS 433A.013 - "Administrator" defined. - "Administrator" means: 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2,...
NRS 433A.0135 - "Assisted outpatient treatment" defined. - "Assisted outpatient treatment" means outpatient services provided pursuant to a...
NRS 433A.0145 - "Consumer" defined. - "Consumer" means any person who, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, seeks...
NRS 433A.015 - "Division" defined. - "Division" means: 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2,...
NRS 433A.016 - "Division facility" defined. - "Division facility" means: 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection...
NRS 433A.0163 - "Emergency admission" defined. - "Emergency admission" means the involuntary admission of a person who...
NRS 433A.0167 - "Involuntary court-ordered admission" defined. - "Involuntary court-ordered admission" means the admission of a person in...
NRS 433A.017 - "Medical director" defined. - "Medical director" means the medical officer in charge of any...
NRS 433A.0172 - "Mental health crisis hold" defined. - "Mental health crisis hold" means the detention of a person...
NRS 433A.0175 - "Person in a mental health crisis" defined. - 1. "Person in a mental health crisis" means any person:...
NRS 433A.018 - "Person professionally qualified in the field of psychiatric mental health" defined. - "Person professionally qualified in the field of psychiatric mental health"...
NRS 433A.019 - "Program of community-based or outpatient services" defined. - [Replaced in revision by NRS 433A.0135.]
NRS 433A.0192 - "Supporter" defined. - "Supporter" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 162C.090....
NRS 433A.0194 - "Voluntary admission" defined. - "Voluntary admission" means the admission of a person to a...
NRS 433A.0195 - Person deemed to present substantial likelihood of serious harm to himself or herself or others in certain circumstances. - For the purposes of this chapter, a person shall be...
NRS 433A.020 - Administrative officer: Qualifications. - The administrative officer of a facility of the Division must:...
NRS 433A.030 - Administrative officer: Powers and duties. - The administrative officers have the following powers and duties, subject...
NRS 433A.040 - Administrative officer: Other employment prohibited; exceptions. - Except as otherwise provided in NRS 284.143, an administrative officer...
NRS 433A.080 - Coordinator of medical programs: Qualifications and selection; powers and duties. - 1. A coordinator of medical programs is the medical head...
NRS 433A.085 - Forms for detainment, evaluation, admission, treatment and conditional release. - All applications, certificates and other forms for the detainment, evaluation,...
NRS 433A.090 - Revolving Account for Northern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services. - There is hereby created a Revolving Account for Northern Nevada...
NRS 433A.100 - Gift accounts in Department of Health and Human Services’ Gift Fund; sale or exchange of gifts of property. - 1. A gift account in the Department of Health and...
NRS 433A.110 - Canteen for facility of Division: Establishment and operation. - 1. The administrative officer of a division mental health facility...
NRS 433A.120 - Types of admission. - There are three types of admission to mental health facilities...
NRS 433A.130 - Forms for admission. - [Replaced in revision by NRS 433A.085.]
NRS 433A.140 - Voluntary admission: Procedures for admission and release; effect of voluntary release. - 1. Any person may apply to: (a) A public or...
NRS 433A.145 - Restrictions on change of status from voluntary consumer to emergency admission. - 1. If a person in a mental health crisis is...
NRS 433A.150 - Detention for assessment, evaluation, intervention and treatment; limitation on time. - 1. A person alleged to be a person in a...
NRS 433A.155 - Petition for order to place person on mental health crisis hold; issuance and delivery of order. - 1. A person listed in subsection 2 may petition a...
NRS 433A.160 - Procedure for placement on mental health crisis hold; regulations concerning accredited agent of Division. - 1. An officer authorized to make arrests in the State...
NRS 433A.162 - Procedure for emergency admission of person placed on mental health crisis hold; limitation on period of emergency admission. - 1. A public or private mental health facility or hospital...
NRS 433A.165 - Examination required before emergency admission of person to facility; treatment of certain medical conditions required before emergency admission to facility; payment of costs; exceptions; regulations. - 1. Before a person alleged to be a person in...
NRS 433A.170 - Certificate of certain providers of health care required for emergency admission. - Except as otherwise provided in this section, the administrative officer...
NRS 433A.185 - Notice of mental health crisis hold for person who is under 18 years of age; maintenance of documentation of notice. - As soon as practicable but not more than 8 hours...
NRS 433A.190 - Notice of emergency admission for person who is at least 18 years of age. - 1. The administrative officer of a public or private mental...
NRS 433A.195 - Procedure for release from mental health crisis hold. - 1. A licensed physician on the medical staff of a...
NRS 433A.197 - Requirements for and limitations on forms, applications and certificates. - 1. A form or certificate authorized under subsection 1 of...
NRS 433A.200 - Filing of petition; certificate or statement concerning alleged mental health crisis; statement of parent consenting to treatment of minor. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 432B.6075, a proceeding...
NRS 433A.210 - Requirements of petition that is filed after mental health crisis hold. - In addition to the requirements of NRS 433A.200, a petition...
NRS 433A.215 - Application for writ of habeas corpus before initial hearing. - If an application for a writ of habeas corpus is...
NRS 433A.220 - Hearing on petition; notice; discharge of person before hearing; notification of court of transfer of subject of petition; additional procedure where subject on conditional release. - 1. Immediately after the clerk of the district court receives...
NRS 433A.230 - Bond of petitioner. - The court in its discretion may require any petitioner under...
NRS 433A.240 - Examination of person alleged to be person in mental health crisis; protective custody pending hearing. - 1. After the filing of a petition to commence proceedings...
NRS 433A.250 - Evaluation team: Establishment; composition; fees. - 1. The Administrator shall establish such evaluation teams as are...
NRS 433A.260 - Transfer of case to county where persons to conduct examination are available; expense of proceedings paid by county of residence of person to be admitted. - 1. If a petition is filed pursuant to NRS 433A.200...
NRS 433A.270 - Right to counsel; compensation of counsel; recess; duties of district attorney. - 1. The person alleged to be a person in a...
NRS 433A.280 - Testimony. - In proceedings for involuntary court-ordered admission, the court shall hear...
NRS 433A.290 - Right of person alleged to be in mental health crisis to be present and testify. - In proceedings for an involuntary court-ordered admission, the person with...
NRS 433A.300 - Fees and mileage for witnesses. - Witnesses subpoenaed under the provisions of this chapter shall be...
NRS 433A.310 - Findings and order; expiration and renewal of admission to facility; alternative courses of treatment; transmittal of record to Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History and law enforcement agencies; prohibition on tran... - 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 432B.6076 and 432B.6077,...
NRS 433A.315 - Development of written plan for course of treatment and program of community-based or outpatient services. - Repealed. (See chapter 481, Statutes of Nevada 2021, at page...
NRS 433A.320 - Clinical abstract to accompany order. - The order for involuntary court-ordered admission of any person to...
NRS 433A.323 - Failure to participate in program or carry out plan of treatment: Petition and order to take person into custody; evaluation. - Repealed. (See chapter 481, Statutes of Nevada 2021, at page...
NRS 433A.327 - Conditional release of person in program: When allowed; no liability of State; notice to court, district attorney and legal guardian; order to resume participation in program; judicial review of order to resume participation in program... - Repealed. (See chapter 481, Statutes of Nevada 2021, at page...
NRS 433A.330 - Transportation to facility. - When an involuntary court admission to a mental health facility...
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...
NRS 433A.336 - Hearing on petition or motion; notice. - 1. Immediately after the clerk of the district court receives...
NRS 433A.337 - Written treatment plan. - 1. Before the date of a hearing on a petition...
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...
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...
NRS 433A.341 - Testimony. - 1. In proceedings for assisted outpatient treatment, the court shall...
NRS 433A.342 - Presence and testimony of subject of petition. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, the person...
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 proceedings for the...
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...
NRS 433A.345 - Petition to renew order for assisted outpatient treatment; service; hearing. - 1. Not later than 7 judicial days before the end...
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...
NRS 433A.360 - Clinical records: Contents; confidentiality. - 1. A clinical record for each consumer must be diligently...
NRS 433A.370 - Escape or absence without leave. - 1. When a consumer committed by a court to a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
NRS 433A.440 - Transfer of nonresident to state of residence. - 1. If any person involuntarily court-admitted to any division facility...
NRS 433A.450 - Detention and treatment of offender in mental health crisis. - When a psychiatrist and one other person professionally qualified in...
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...
NRS 433A.470 - Guardian may be appointed for person adjudicated incapacitated. - A person adjudicated by a court to be incapacitated who...
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...
NRS 433A.490 - Restoration of legal capacity of person previously adjudicated incapacitated. - Any person in the State of Nevada who, by reason...
NRS 433A.580 - Arrangements for payment of costs required. - No person may be admitted or transferred to a private...
NRS 433A.590 - Schedule of fees. - 1. Fees for the cost of treatment and services rendered...
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...
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...
NRS 433A.620 - Limitation on payment from estate of person admitted to facility. - Payment for the care, support, maintenance and other expenses of...
NRS 433A.630 - Special agreement for support of consumer adjudicated incapacitated; advance payments. - 1. The administrative officers of the respective division facilities may...
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...
NRS 433A.650 - Benefits available from third party. - Determination of ability to pay pursuant to NRS 433A.640 must...
NRS 433A.660 - Collection of fees by legal action and other methods. - 1. If the consumer, his or her responsible relative pursuant...
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...
NRS 433A.690 - Claim against estate of deceased consumer. - Claims by a division mental health facility against the estates...
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...
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; dis... - 1. A court shall seal all court records relating to...
NRS 433A.740 - Liability of public officer or employee. - Any public officer or employee who transports or delivers or...
NRS 433A.750 - Unlawful acts; penalties. - 1. A person who: (a) Without probable cause for believing...