NRS 449.340: Authority to prescribe minimum standards; standards to supersede local ordinances and regulations; penalty.

1. The Authority may, by regulation, establish standards for the maintenance and operation of health facilities, which supersede all local ordinances and regulations inconsistent therewith.

2. A copy of the regulations, giving the date that they take effect, must be issued in pamphlet form.

3. Any health facility that applies for and accepts federal aid for construction under a state plan does so on the condition that the health facility qualify under the minimum standards for maintenance and operation adopted and enforced by the Authority.

4. Any person, partnership, association or corporation establishing, conducting, managing or operating any health facility within the meaning of NRS 449.250 to 449.430, inclusive, who violates any of the provisions of this section or regulations lawfully adopted thereunder is guilty of a misdemeanor.