NRS433A.197. Requirements for and limitations on applications and certificates.

      1.  An application or certificate authorized under subsection 1 of NRS 433A.160 or NRS 433A.170 or 433A.195 must not be considered if made by a psychiatrist, psychologist or physician who is related by blood or marriage within the first degree of consanguinity or affinity to the person alleged to be a person with mental illness, or who is financially interested in the facility in which the person alleged to be a person with mental illness is to be detained.

      2.  An application or certificate of any examining person authorized under NRS 433A.170 must not be considered unless it is based on personal observation and examination of the person alleged to be a person with mental illness made by such examining person not more than 72 hours prior to the making of the application or certificate. The certificate required pursuant to NRS 433A.170 must set forth in detail the facts and reasons on which the examining person based his or her opinions and conclusions.

      3.  A certificate authorized pursuant to NRS 433A.195 must not be considered unless it is based on personal observation and examination of the person alleged to be a person with mental illness made by the examining physician. The certificate authorized pursuant to NRS 433A.195 must set forth in detail the facts and reasons on which the examining physician based his or her opinions and conclusions.

      (Added to NRS by 1975, 1603; A 1989, 1550; 2009, 336)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 433A.180)