NRS433A.470. Guardian may be appointed for person adjudicated incompetent.

  A person adjudicated by a court to be a person with mental incompetence who is admitted to a public or private mental health facility may have a guardian appointed either by the admitting court or by the district court of the county wherein the mental health facility is located, on the application of any interested person or, in the case of an indigent, on the application of the district attorney of the county wherein the mental health facility is located. The provisions of chapter 159 of NRS shall govern the appointment and administration of guardianships created pursuant to this chapter.

      (Added to NRS by 1975, 1610)