NRS435.007. Definitions.

  As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

      1.  “Administrative officer” means a person with overall executive and administrative responsibility for those state or nonstate intellectual disability centers designated by the Administrator.

      2.  “Administrator” means the Administrator of the Division.

      3.  “Child” means any person under the age of 18 years who may be eligible for intellectual disability services or services for a related condition.

      4.  “Department” means the Department of Health and Human Services.

      5.  “Director of the Department” means the administrative head of the Department.

      6.  “Division” means the Aging and Disability Services Division of the Department.

      7.  “Division facility” means any unit or subunit operated by the Division for the care, treatment and training of consumers.

      8.  “Intellectual disability” means significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period.

      9.  “Intellectual disability center” means an organized program for providing appropriate services and treatment to persons with intellectual disabilities and persons with related conditions. An intellectual disability center may include facilities for residential treatment and training.

      10.  “Medical director” means the chief medical officer of any program of the Division for persons with intellectual disabilities and persons with other related conditions.

      11.  “Mental illness” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 433.164.

      12.  “Parent” means the parent of a child. The term does not include the parent of a person who has attained the age of 18 years.

      13.  “Person” includes a child and any other consumer with an intellectual disability or a related condition who has attained the age of 18 years.

      14.  “Person professionally qualified in the field of psychiatric mental health” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 433.209.

      15.  “Persons with related conditions” means persons who have a severe, chronic disability which:

      (a) Is attributable to:

             (1) Cerebral palsy or epilepsy; or

             (2) Any other condition, other than mental illness, found to be closely related to an intellectual disability because the condition results in impairment of general intellectual functioning or adaptive behavior similar to that of a person with an intellectual disability and requires treatment or services similar to those required by a person with an intellectual disability;

      (b) Is manifested before the person affected attains the age of 22 years;

      (c) Is likely to continue indefinitely; and

      (d) Results in substantial functional limitations in three or more of the following areas of major life activity:

             (1) Taking care of oneself;

             (2) Understanding and use of language;

             (3) Learning;

             (4) Mobility;

             (5) Self-direction; and

             (6) Capacity for independent living.

      16.  “Residential facility for groups” means a structure similar to a private residence which will house a small number of persons in a homelike atmosphere.

      17.  “Training” means a program of services directed primarily toward enhancing the health, welfare and development of persons with intellectual disabilities and persons with related conditions through the process of providing those experiences that will enable the person to:

      (a) Develop his or her physical, intellectual, social and emotional capacities to the fullest extent;

      (b) Live in an environment that is conducive to personal dignity; and

      (c) Continue development of those skills, habits and attitudes essential to adaptation in contemporary society.

      18.  “Treatment” means any combination of procedures or activities, of whatever level of intensity and whatever duration, ranging from occasional counseling sessions to full-time admission to a residential facility.

      (Added to NRS by 1975, 1617; A 1979, 1325; 1981, 1579; 1985, 1761; 1999, 2594; 2011, 435; 2013, 669, 3032)