Nevada Administrative Code
Chapter 467 - Unarmed Combat
DRUG TESTING PROGRAM FOR UNARMED COMBATANTS; ANTI-DOPING VIOLATIONS
Section 467.583 - Application for therapeutic use exemption; approval; period of validity and renewal; exception from anti-doping violations for use consistent with therapeutic exemption

1. An unarmed combatant who wishes to obtain a therapeutic use exemption must submit to the Commission an application for a therapeutic use exemption and any medical information the Commission deems necessary to determine whether to grant the therapeutic use exemption.

2. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, a therapeutic use exemption is not valid unless the Commission grants an application for a therapeutic use exemption not later than 60 days before the first contest or exhibition in which the applicant is scheduled to participate in this State in a calendar year.

3. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, if, because of extraordinary circumstances, including, without limitation, the inability of the Commission to conduct a meeting to consider an application for a therapeutic use exemption, the Commission is unable to grant an application for a therapeutic use exemption within the period prescribed by this subsection, the Chair of the Commission or the Executive Director, in consultation with a physician approved by the Commission, may grant the application for a therapeutic use exemption at any time before the contest or exhibition in which the applicant is scheduled to participate.

4. The Commission will not grant:

5. A therapeutic use exemption granted by the Commission pursuant to this section is valid until the end of the calendar year in which it was granted, and may be renewed at the time that an unarmed combatant applies for the issuance or renewal of his or her license or at such time as the Commission determines.

6. If the Commission grants a therapeutic use exemption to an unarmed combatant, the unarmed combatant, a person who is licensed, approved, registered or sanctioned by the Commission and any other person associated with unarmed combat in this State who acts consistently with the therapeutic use exemption does not commit an anti-doping violation set forth in NAC 467.571, 467.5715, 467.572 and 467.573.