§ 439.360 — County board of health: Powers; requirements for order for isolation, quarantine or treatment

Nevada § 439.360

• Jurisdiction: Nevada
• Title 40: PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
• Ch. 439: Administration

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1. The county board of health may:
(a) Abate nuisances in accordance with law.
(b) Establish and maintain an isolation hospital or quarantine station when necessary for the isolation or quarantine of a person or a group of persons.
(c) Isolate any person or group of persons with a communicable disease that is in an infectious state and poses a risk to the public health.
(d) Quarantine any person or group of persons who has been exposed to any communicable disease that is in an infectious state and poses a risk to the public health.
(e) Treat any person or group of persons with a communicable disease that is in an infectious state and poses a risk to the public health or who has been exposed to such a communicable disease.
(f) Monitor and treat any person or group of persons with a communicable disease that poses a risk to the public health if there is a risk that the communicable disease will develop into:
(1) A progressed state that endangers the health of the person or persons; or
(2) An infectious state.
(g) Appoint quarantine officers when necessary to enforce a quarantine.
(h) Subject to the prior review and approval of the board of county commissioners and except as otherwise provided in NRS 576.128 , adopt a schedule of reasonable fees to be collected for issuing or renewing any health permit or license required to be obtained from the board pursuant to a law of this state or an ordinance adopted by any political subdivision of this state. Such fees must be for the sole purpose of defraying the costs and expenses of the procedures for issuing licenses and permits, and investigations related thereto, and not for the purposes of general revenue.
2. Any order to isolate, quarantine or treat a person or group of persons issued pursuant to subsection 1 must state the reasons that each of the actions prescribed by the order are the least restrictive means available to prevent, suppress or control the communicable disease. If a county board of health issues an order to isolate, quarantine or treat a person pursuant to subsection 1, the county board of health must:
(a) Isolate, quarantine or treat the person in the manner set forth in NRS 441A.505 to 441A.720 , inclusive.
(b) Provide whatever medicines, disinfectants and provisions may be required and arrange for the payment of all debts or charges so incurred from any funds available, but each patient shall, if the patient is able, pay for his or her food, medicine, clothes and medical attendance.
3. As used in this section, “communicable disease” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 441A.040 .

Legislative History

[Part 28:199:1911; added 1919, 221 ; 1919 RL p. 2891; NCL § 5262]—(NRS A 1973, 1137 ; 1997, 1616 , 3173 ; 1999, 649 ; 2003, 2195 ; 2021, 3181 )