Nevada Revised Statutes 435.332 – Certificate required to provide services; holder authorized to provide services to certain persons
1. No partnership, firm, corporation, association, state or local government or agency thereof may provide supported living arrangement services in this State without first obtaining a certificate from the Division.
Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 435.332
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Developmental disability: means autism, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder or any other neurological condition diagnosed by a qualified professional that:
(a) Is manifested before the person affected attains the age of 22 years;
(b) Is likely to continue indefinitely;
(c) Results in substantial functional limitations, as measured by a qualified professional, 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; and
(d) Results in the person affected requiring a combination of individually planned and coordinated services, support or other assistance that is lifelong or has an extended duration. See Nevada Revised Statutes 435.007
- Division: means the Aging and Disability Services Division of the Department. See Nevada Revised Statutes 435.007
- Intellectual disability: means significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period. See Nevada Revised Statutes 435.007
- Mental illness: has the meaning ascribed to it in Nevada Revised Statutes 435.007
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Person: includes a child and any other consumer with an intellectual disability and a child or any other consumer with a developmental disability who has attained the age of 18 years. See Nevada Revised Statutes 435.007
2. No natural person other than a person who is employed by an entity listed in subsection 1 may provide supported living arrangement services in this State without first obtaining a certificate from the Division.
3. The holder of a certificate to provide supported living arrangement services may provide such services to any person with a primary diagnosis of an intellectual disability or developmental disability, including, without limitation, such a person who has a secondary diagnosis other than an intellectual disability or developmental disability. Such a secondary diagnosis may include, without limitation, a secondary diagnosis of a mental illness.