Nevada Code § 392.160

Taking into custody child reported absent from school; persons or counseling agency to whom child may be delivered
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1. Any peace officer, the attendance
officer or any other school officer shall, during school hours, take into
custody without warrant:
(a) Any child between the ages of 6 and 18 years;
and
(b) Any child who has arrived at the age of 5
years but not at the age of 6 years and is enrolled in a public school,
who has been
reported to the officer by the teacher, superintendent of schools or other
school officer as an absentee from instruction upon which the child is lawfully
required to attend.
2. Except as otherwise provided in
subsection 3:
(a) During school hours, the officer having
custody shall forthwith deliver the child to the superintendent of schools,
principal or other school officer at the childs school of attendance.
(b) After school hours, the officer having
custody shall deliver the child to the parent, guardian or other person having
control or charge of the child.
3. The board of trustees of a school
district or the governing body of a charter school may enter into an agreement
with a counseling agency to permit delivery of the child to the agency. For the
purposes of this subsection, counseling agency means an agency designated by
the school district in which the child is enrolled to provide counseling for
the child and the parent, guardian or other person having control or charge of
the child.

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