NRS 433A.470 – Guardian may be appointed for person adjudicated incapacitated.
A person adjudicated by a court to be incapacitated who is admitted to a public or private mental health facility may have a guardian appointed either by the admitting court or by the district court of the county wherein the mental health facility is located, on the application of any interested person or, in the […]
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 shall have all persons adjudicated incapacitated of that facility automatically evaluated no less than once every 6 months to determine whether or not there is sufficient cause to believe that the consumer remains unable to exercise rights to dispose of property, marry, execute instruments, make […]
NRS 433A.490 – Restoration of legal capacity of person previously adjudicated incapacitated.
Any person in the State of Nevada who, by reason of a judicial decree ordering the person’s hospitalization entered prior to July 1, 1975, is considered to be incapacitated and is denied the right to dispose of property, marry, execute instruments, make purchases, enter into contractual relationships, vote or hold a driver’s license solely by […]
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 conditionally released from a public or private mental health facility when, in the judgment of the medical director of the facility: (a) The conditional release is in the best interest of the person, will provide the least restrictive treatment that is appropriate for the person […]
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 facility or required to receive assisted outpatient treatment by court order, is released at the end of the period specified pursuant to NRS 433A.310 or 433A.343, as applicable, written notice must be given to the court that issued the order not later than 3 judicial […]
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 been determined to no longer be a person in a mental health crisis, but having a residual medical or surgical disability which prevents him or her from obtaining or holding remunerative employment, must be returned to the county of his or her last residence, except […]
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 transfer to a hospital of the Department of Veterans Affairs or other facility of the United States Government any admitted consumer eligible for treatment therein. If the consumer in any manner objects to the transfer, the medical director of the facility shall enter the objection […]
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 State are inadequate for the care of any person in a mental health crisis, the Administrator may designate two physicians, licensed under the provisions of chapter 630 or 633 of NRS and familiar with the field of psychiatry, or advanced practice registered nurses who have […]
NRS 433A.440 – Transfer of nonresident to state of residence.
1. If any person involuntarily court-admitted to any division facility pursuant to NRS 433A.310 is found by the court not to be a resident of this State and to be a resident of another state, the person may be transferred to the state of his or her residence pursuant to NRS 433.444, and, if applicable, […]
NRS 433A.450 – Detention and treatment of offender in mental health crisis.
When a psychiatrist and one other person professionally qualified in the field of psychiatric mental health determines that an offender confined in an institution of the Department of Corrections is a person in a mental health crisis, the Director of the Department of Corrections shall apply to the Administrator for the offender’s detention and treatment […]