Nevada Administrative Code
Chapter 441A - INFECTIOUS DISEASES; TOXIC AGENTS
REPORTING OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
Section 441A.225 - General requirements for certain reports to health authority and rabies control authority; establishment of after-hours reporting system
Current through December 12, 2024
1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a report of a case or suspected case, which is required to be made pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, must be made to the health authority during the regular business hours of the health authority on the first working day following the identification of the case or suspected case. Except as required pursuant to subsection 2, the report may be made by:
2. The health authority may require a report of a case or suspected case to be made using electronic case reporting.
3. A report must be made immediately after identifying a case having or a suspected case considered to have:
4. A report must be made to the health authority within 24 hours after identifying a case having:
5. A report must be made to the health authority within 24 hours after identifying a suspected case considered possibly to have:
6. Except as otherwise required pursuant to subsection 2, a report to the health authority made pursuant to subsection 3, 4 or 5 must be made by telephone if it is made during the regular business hours of the health authority or using the after-hours reporting system if the report is made at any other time.
7. A report of animal rabies or an animal bite by a rabies-susceptible animal must be made to the health authority or to the rabies control authority, if designated by the health authority, within 24 hours after identifying the case. Except as otherwise required pursuant to subsection 2, the report must be made by telephone if it is made during the regular business hours of the health authority or rabies control authority, as applicable, or using the after hours reporting system if the report is made at any other time.
8. Each health authority and rabies control authority shall establish and maintain an after-hours reporting system.
9. As used in this section, "electronic case reporting" means the automated, real-time exchange of information concerning cases between electronic health records and the health authority.
Added to NAC by Bd. of Health, eff. 1-24-92; A by R087-08, 1-13-2011; A by R187-18A, eff. 6/12/2019; A by R148-22A, eff. 7/26/2023
NRS 439.200, 441A.120