NRS633.601. Injunctive relief.

      1.  In addition to any other remedy provided by law, the Board, through an officer of the Board or the Attorney General, may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction to enjoin any unprofessional conduct of an osteopathic physician or physician assistant which is harmful to the public or to limit the practice of the osteopathic physician or physician assistant or suspend his or her license to practice osteopathic medicine or to practice as a physician assistant, as applicable, as provided in this section.

      2.  The court in a proper case may issue a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction for such purposes:

      (a) Without proof of actual damage sustained by any person, this provision being a preventive as well as punitive measure; and

      (b) Pending proceedings for disciplinary action by the Board. Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter 622A of NRS, such proceedings shall be instituted and determined as promptly as the requirements for investigation of the case reasonably allow.

      (Added to NRS by 1977, 951; A 2005, 767; 2011, 1046)