Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 433A - Admission to Mental Health Facilities or Assisted Outpatient Treatment; Hospitalization
NRS 433A.270 - Right to counsel; compensation of counsel; recess; duties of district attorney.

1. The person alleged to be a person in a mental health crisis or any relative or friend on the person’s behalf is entitled to retain counsel to represent the person in any proceeding before the district court relating to involuntary court-ordered admission, and if he or she fails or refuses to obtain counsel, the court must advise the person and the person’s guardian or next of kin, if known, of such right to counsel and shall appoint counsel.
2. The court shall award any counsel appointed pursuant to subsection 1 compensation for his or her services in an amount determined by it to be fair and reasonable. The compensation must be charged against the estate of the person for whom the counsel was appointed or, if the person is indigent, against the county where the person alleged to be a person in a mental health crisis last resided.
3. The court shall, at the request of counsel representing the person alleged to be a person in a mental health crisis in proceedings before the court relating to involuntary court-ordered admission, grant a recess in the proceedings for the shortest time possible, but for not more than 5 days, to give the counsel an opportunity to prepare his or her case.
4. Each district attorney or his or her deputy shall appear and represent the State in all involuntary court-ordered admission proceedings in the district attorney’s county. The district attorney is responsible for the presentation of evidence, if any, in support of the involuntary court-ordered admission of a person to a mental health facility in proceedings held pursuant to NRS 433A.200 and 433A.210.
(Added to NRS by 1975, 1605; A 2001, 3046; 2013, 3491; 2021, 2271, 3090)

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