1. The Division shall develop and implement a process by which a person with a criminal history may petition the Division to review the criminal history of the person to determine if the person’s criminal history will disqualify the person from obtaining a certificate pursuant to this chapter. 2. Not later than 90 days after […]
Neither voluntary admission nor judicial commitment nor any other procedure provided in this chapter may be construed as depriving a person with an intellectual disability or a person with a developmental disability of the person’s full civil and legal rights by any method other than a separate judicial proceeding resulting in a determination of incapacity […]
1. Each person with an intellectual disability and each person with a developmental disability admitted to a division facility is entitled to all rights enumerated in NRS 435.006, 435.565 and 435.570. 2. The Administrator shall designate a person or persons to be responsible for establishment of regulations relating to denial of rights of persons with […]
1. The relatives of a consumer with an intellectual disability or a consumer with a developmental disability who is 18 years of age or older are not responsible for the costs of the consumer’s care and treatment within a division facility. 2. The consumer or the consumer’s estate, when able, may be required to contribute […]
1. To the extent that money is available for that purpose, whenever a person with an intellectual disability or a person with a developmental disability is cared for by a parent or other relative with whom the person lives, that parent or relative is eligible to receive assistance on a monthly basis from the Division […]
The Division may make such rules and regulations and enter such agreements with public and private agencies as are deemed necessary to implement residential placement-foster family care programs for persons with intellectual disabilities or persons with developmental disabilities. (Added to NRS by 1975, 1624; A 1999, 2603; 2013, 678; 2017, 2824)
1. The Division shall enter into a cooperative agreement with the Rehabilitation Division of the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation to provide long-term support to persons with intellectual disabilities or persons with developmental disabilities, including, without limitation, jobs and day training services and supported living arrangement services. The agreement must include a provision stating […]
1. All gifts or grants of money which the Division is authorized to accept must be spent in accordance with the provisions of the gift or grant. In the absence of those provisions, the Division must spend the money for the purpose approved by the Interim Finance Committee. 2. All such money must be deposited […]
1. The administrative officer of any division facility where persons with intellectual disabilities or persons with developmental disabilities reside may establish a canteen operated for the benefit of consumers and employees of the facility. The administrative officer shall keep a record of transactions in the operation of the canteen. 2. Each canteen must be self-supporting. […]
1. A public or private facility offering services for persons with intellectual disabilities or persons with developmental disabilities may return a prescription drug that is dispensed to a patient of the facility, but will not be used by that patient, to the dispensing pharmacy for the purpose of reissuing the drug to fill other prescriptions […]
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 […]
1. If any person involuntarily court-admitted to any division facility 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 435.515 if an appropriate institution of that state […]
