Section 625A.010 - DefinitionsAs used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Board" means the Board of Environmental Health Specialists. 2. "Contact hour" means 60 minutes of participation in an approved course. 3. "Environmental health sciences" means the science and practice of preventing human injury and illness and promoting human well-being by:(a) Identifying and evaluating hazardous physical, chemical and biological agents that may adversely affect human health and the environmental sources of those agents; and(b) Limiting exposures to those agents in air, water, soil, food and other environmental media or settings. 4. "Registrant" means: (a) A person who holds a registration as an environmental health specialist issued by the Board pursuant to NRS 625A.110, including, without limitation, a person who holds a registration by endorsement.(b) A person who holds a temporary registration to engage in the practice of environmental health issued by the Board pursuant to section 10 of Assembly Bill No. 175, chapter 344, Statutes of Nevada 2019, at page 2114 (NRS 625A.112); or(c) A person who holds a provisional registration as an environmental health specialist trainee issued by the Board pursuant to NRS 625A.115.5. "Standard registration" means a registration to engage in the practice of environmental health as an environmental health specialist issued by the Board pursuant to NRS 625A.110. The term includes a person who holds a registration by endorsement. The term does not include a temporary registration to engage in the practice of environmental health issued by the Board pursuant to section 10 of Assembly Bill No. 175, chapter 344, Statutes of Nevada 2019, at page 2114 (NRS 625A.112), or a provisional registration as an environmental health specialist trainee issued by the Board pursuant to NRS 625A.115.Nev. Admin. Code § 625A.010
Added to NAC by Bd. for Registration of Pub. Health Sanitarians, eff. 2-19-91; A by Bd. of Reg. Environmental Health Sp. by R125-03, 3-26-2004; R003-06, 3-23-2007; A by R049-16A, eff. 6/21/2017; A by R075-19A, eff. 5/21/2020Section 6 of Assembly Bill No. 175, chapter 344, Statutes of Nevada 2019, at page 2113 (NRS 625A.057)