Nevada Administrative Code
Chapter 441A - INFECTIOUS DISEASES; TOXIC AGENTS
SYSTEM FOR SYNDROMIC REPORTING AND ACTIVE SURVEILLANCE
Section 441A.910 - "Major event" interpreted

Universal Citation: NV Admin Code 441A.910

Current through December 31, 2024

The Board interprets the term "major event," as used in NRS 441A.125 and NAC 441A.900 to 441A.940, inclusive, to mean:

1. An assembly, meeting or other gathering of persons in this State that the health authority determines may be the object of an act of biological terrorism because the gathering is unusually large or attended by one or more public figures, including, without limitation, a head of state;

2. A determination by the Secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security that the threat of a terrorist attack on the United States or to a particular geographic region or industrial sector is "severe";

3. A state of emergency or declaration of disaster proclaimed by the Governor or resolved by the Legislature pursuant to NRS 414.070;

4. A known or suspected release of a biological or chemical agent within the United States that may pose a threat to the public health in this State;

5. A known or suspected national, pandemic or global outbreak of disease; or

6. A local outbreak within this State of an illness that is known or suspected to be related to the use of a biological, chemical or radiological weapon.

Added to NAC by Bd. of Health by R087-08, eff. 1-13-2011

NRS 441A.120, 441A.125

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