NRS414.097. Emergency management plans must include provision ensuring person is evacuated, transported and sheltered together with his or her service animal.  


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  •       1.  The state emergency management plan prepared pursuant to NRS 414.060 and each plan for emergency operations specified in paragraph (b) of subsection 4 of NRS 414.040 that is adopted by a state or local governmental agency must include provisions ensuring that, to the extent practicable, a person with a disability who uses a service animal is evacuated, transported and sheltered together with the service animal during a disaster or emergency.

          2.  As used in this section:

          (a) “Disability” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 426.068.

          (b) “Service animal” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 426.097.

      (Added to NRS by 2009, 740)