NRS284.4066. Screening tests: Applicants for positions affecting public safety required to take screening test; appointing authority authorized to consider results; provision of results to applicant upon request.

      1.  Each appointing authority shall, subject to the approval of the Commission, determine whether each of its positions of employment affects the public safety. The appointing authority shall not hire an applicant for such a position unless the applicant submits to a screening test to detect the general presence of a controlled substance. Notice of the provisions of this section must be given to each applicant for such a position at or before the time of application.

      2.  An appointing authority may consider the results of a screening test in determining whether to employ an applicant. If those results indicate the presence of a controlled substance, the appointing authority shall not hire the applicant unless the applicant provides, within 72 hours after being requested by the appointing authority, proof that the applicant had taken the controlled substance as directed pursuant to a current and lawful prescription issued in the applicant’s name.

      3.  An appointing authority shall, at the request of an applicant, provide the applicant with the results of the applicant’s screening test.

      (Added to NRS by 1991, 1350; A 1993, 2254; 2003, 1450)