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Nevada · Through 2025 session (NRS as revised 2026-08-25) · Newer source version available

NRS 450B.580: Unlawful acts; penalty.

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  1. TITLE 40 — PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
  2. CHAPTER 450B - EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
  3. WITHHOLDING LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENT

1. It is unlawful for:

(a) A person who administers emergency medical services to fail willfully to transfer a qualified patient in accordance with the provisions of NRS 450B.550.

(b) A person purposely to conceal, cancel, deface or obliterate a do-not-resuscitate identification of a qualified patient, unless it is done in compliance with a request of the qualified patient or a parent or legal guardian of the qualified patient to remove or destroy the do-not-resuscitate identification pursuant to NRS 450B.525 or 450B.530.

(c) A person to falsify or forge the do-not-resuscitate identification of a qualified patient or purposely to conceal or withhold personal knowledge of the revocation of a do-not-resuscitate identification with the intent to cause the use, withholding or withdrawal of life-resuscitating treatment.

2. A person who violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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