1. The Director shall adopt regulations requiring a public accommodation facility to establish standards for cleaning that are designed to reduce the transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Those standards must require only the following and with no greater frequency than provided in this section:
(a) Desks, tabletops, interior and exterior handles of doors, faucets, toilets, light switches, remote controls, telephones, keyboards and touch screens in guest rooms to be cleaned every day that the room is in use unless the guest using the room declines in-room housekeeping.
(b) The following high-contact areas and items in locations used by the public and employees to be cleaned daily while in use:
(1) Fixtures with which guests and employees may be expected to have regular physical contact;
(2) Doors and door handles at exterior entrances;
(3) Door handles at interior entrances regularly accessed by guests and employees;
(4) Regularly used computer keyboards, touch screens, credit card readers, printers, telephones, light switches, ice machines, vending machines and other frequently used instruments and equipment; and
(5) Countertops and desks in entrance areas and other high-usage areas.
(c) Glass surfaces, desks, tabletops, door handles and light switches in public areas to be cleaned daily while in use.
(d) Counters, desks, touch screens, keyboards, credit card readers and desktops in front desk areas to be cleaned daily while in use.
(e) Key cards and other types of keys for accessing rooms to be cleaned before those key cards or other keys are issued to another guest or removed from circulation for at least 24 hours after a guest checks out.
(f) Elevator buttons and rails in guest and service elevators to be cleaned daily if the elevator is in use.
(g) Sinks, faucets, walls, toilets, toilet paper dispensers and door handles in employee and public restrooms to be cleaned regularly throughout the day while in use.
(h) Work surfaces, tables, utensils, counters, touch screens and keyboards in areas used for food preparation to be cleaned regularly throughout the day.
(i) Tables, desks, tabletops, door handles and light switches in shared offices, employee locker rooms and employee cafeterias to be cleaned daily while in use.
(j) Exercise equipment, weights, tables, countertops, chairs, lockers and benches in fitness centers to be cleaned daily while in use.
(k) Tabletops in meeting rooms to be cleaned while in use.
(l) Tables, bartops, menus and check presentation holders in bar and dining facilities to be cleaned daily.
(m) Touch screens and keyboards in bar and dining facilities to be cleaned daily.
(n) Soiled laundry to be cleaned as necessary.
(o) Laundry carts and hampers to be cleaned daily while in use.
2. A public accommodation facility shall not advise or incentivize guests to decline daily in-room housekeeping.
3. An employer operating a public accommodation facility shall conspicuously post at each employee entrance and on each bulletin board where the facility regularly posts official communications with employees:
(a) A one-page summary of the standards adopted pursuant to subsection 1; and
(b) A list of key contact persons at public health agencies.
4. An employer operating a public accommodation facility shall make available to employees or their bargaining representative a physical or electronic copy of the standards adopted pursuant to subsection 1 upon request at no cost.
(Added to NRS by 2020, 32nd Special Session, 100; A 2021, 3593)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 447 - Public Accommodations
NRS 447.007 - "Health authority" defined.
NRS 447.010 - "Hotel" defined.
NRS 447.020 - Cleanliness of bedding; worn out and unfit bedding.
NRS 447.030 - Extermination of vermin.
NRS 447.040 - Cleanliness of rooms used for sleeping.
NRS 447.045 - Hotel required to be kept in sanitary condition.
NRS 447.050 - Certain areas of hotel prohibited from use as quarters for living or sleeping.
NRS 447.060 - Ventilation of rooms.
NRS 447.070 - Windows and outside doors to be equipped with screens.
NRS 447.080 - Air space, floor area and ceiling height of rooms.
NRS 447.090 - Amount of bedding required; furnishing clean sheets and pillow slips; size of sheets.
NRS 447.100 - Fumigation of room after occupation by person having contagious or infectious disease.
NRS 447.110 - Facilities for bathing.
NRS 447.120 - Towels to be furnished.
NRS 447.140 - Ventilation of room containing water closet, bathtub or shower.
NRS 447.160 - Disposal of sewage; disinfection of toilets.
NRS 447.170 - Supply of water; plumbing.
NRS 447.180 - Disposal of garbage and rubbish.
NRS 447.190 - Enforcement of general regulations by health authority; records.
NRS 447.200 - Access for inspection of hotel.
NRS 447.210 - Criminal penalty; each day of violation constitutes separate offense.
NRS 447.305 - "Director" defined.
NRS 447.310 - "Employee" defined.
NRS 447.315 - "Health authority" defined.
NRS 447.320 - "Public accommodation facility" and "facility" defined.
NRS 447.330 - Prohibited regulations; opportunity to comment on amendment or repeal of regulations.
NRS 447.355 - Adoption of regulations by district board of health.