Nevada Administrative Code|Section 441A.243 - Duty of parole officer or probation officer or similar employee of Division of Parole and Probation of Department of Public Safety or local governmental entity to report communicable disease; content of report; cooperation with health authority

                                                
 441A.243. Duty of parole officer or probation officer or similar employee of Division of Parole and Probation of Department of Public Safety or local governmental entity to report communicable disease; content of report; cooperation with health authority 
 
1. A person who is employed by the Division of Parole and Probation of the Department of Public Safety or by a local governmental entity as a parole officer or probation officer or to perform similar duties and who knows or suspects that a parolee or probationer under his or her supervision has a communicable disease shall report the communicable disease to the health authority having jurisdiction where the parolee or probationer resides. The report must be made in the manner provided in NAC 441A.225.
 
2. The report must include:
 
(a) The name of the communicable disease or suspected communicable disease.
 
(b) The name, address and, if available, telephone number of the person known or suspected to have the communicable disease.
 
(c) The name, address and telephone number of the person making the report.
 
(d) The occupation, employer, age, sex, race and date of birth of the person known or suspected to have the communicable disease, if available.
 
(e) The date of onset and the date of diagnosis of the communicable disease, if available.
 
(f) Any other information requested by the health authority, if available.
 
3. A person who makes a report pursuant to subsection 1 shall promptly cooperate with the health authority during:
 
(a) An investigation of the circumstances or cause of a case, suspected case, outbreak or suspected outbreak.
 
(b) The carrying out of measures for the prevention, suppression and control of a communicable disease, including, without limitation, procedures of exclusion, isolation and quarantine.
 
Added to NAC by Bd. of Health by R087-08, eff. 1-13-2011
 
NRS 441A.120