Supervision of state institutions by Health Division: Regulations; inspections and reports.
1. The Health Division has supervision over the sanitation, healthfulness, cleanliness and safety, as it pertains to the foregoing matters, of the following state institutions:
(a) Institutions and facilities of the Department of Corrections.
(b) Northern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services.
(c) Nevada Youth Training Center, Caliente Youth Center and any other state facility for the detention of children that is operated pursuant to title 5 of NRS.
(d) Northern Nevada Children’s Home.
(e) Southern Nevada Children’s Home.
(f) University and Community College System of Nevada.
2. The State Board of Health may adopt regulations pertaining thereto as are necessary to promote properly the sanitation, healthfulness, cleanliness and, as it pertains to the foregoing matters, the safety of those institutions.
3. The State Health Officer or his authorized agent shall inspect those institutions at least once each calendar year and whenever he deems an inspection necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.
4. The State Health Officer may publish reports of the inspections.
5. All persons charged with the duty of maintenance and operation of the institutions named in this section shall operate the institutions in conformity with the regulations adopted by the State Board of Health pursuant to subsection 2.
6. The State Health Officer or his authorized agent may, in carrying out the provisions of this section, enter upon any part of the premises of any of the institutions named in this section over which he has jurisdiction, to determine the sanitary conditions of the institutions and to determine whether the provisions of this section and the regulations of the State Board of Health pertaining thereto are being violated.
Last modified: February 26, 2006