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

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

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 .