Nev. Rev. Stat. § 458.010

Current through 82nd (2023) Legislative Session Chapter 535 and 34th (2023) Special Session Chapter 1 and 35th (2023) Special Session Chapter 1

Section 458.010 - Definitions

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:

1. "Administrator" means the Administrator of the Division.

2. "Civil protective custody" means a custodial placement of a person to protect the health or safety of the person. Civil protective custody does not have any criminal implication.

3. "Detoxification technician" means a person who is certified by the Division to provide screening for the safe withdrawal from alcohol and other drugs.

4. "Division" means the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services.

5. "Facility" means a physical structure used for the education, prevention and treatment, including mental and physical restoration, of persons with alcohol or other substance use disorders.

6. "Person with an alcohol or other substance use disorder" means a person whose consumption of alcohol or other drugs, or any combination thereof, interferes with or adversely affects the ability of the person to function socially or economically.

7. "Person with an alcohol use disorder" means any person who habitually uses alcoholic beverages to the extent that the person endangers the health, safety or welfare of himself or herself or any other person or group of persons.

8. "Program for alcohol or other substance use disorders" means a project concerned with education, prevention and treatment directed toward achieving the mental and physical restoration of persons with an alcohol or other substance use disorder.

9. "Treatment provider" means a public or private agency, residential treatment center, facility for the treatment of alcohol or other substance use disorders, voluntary organization which is certified by the Division or a practitioner licensed or certified pursuant to chapter 641, 641A, 641B or 641C of NRS.

NRS 458.010

Added to NRS by 1960, 306; A 1963, 966; 1967, 1174; 1973, 1060, 1399; 1975, 228; 1977, 1223; 1993, 1628; 1997, 3076; 1999, 1266, 1874, 3065, 3066, 3077; 2001, 418, 440, 1909, 2519; 2003, 1168, 1454; 2005, 22nd Special Session, 56, 57; 2011, 2854; 2013, 3063; 2015, 745, 2278

Amended by 2015, Ch. 402,§19, eff. 7/1/2015.

Amended by 2015, Ch. 402,§17, eff. 7/1/2015.

Amended by 2015, Ch. 402,§16, eff. 7/1/2015.

Amended by 2015, Ch. 162,§11, eff. 7/1/2015.

Amended by 2013, Ch. 489,§131, eff. 7/1/2013.